Relating to or caused by diastrophe; describing large-scale geological deformation and crustal movements.
From 'diastrophe' + the '-ic' suffix, creating an adjective to describe geologic processes and features resulting from crustal deformation.
The San Francisco Bay Area sits on a diastrophic hotspot where the Pacific and North American plates grind past each other—that's why earthquakes are inevitable there!
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