Subductive vs. Tectonic — What's the Difference?

(geology) Of, related to, or caused by tectonic plate subduction

Relating to or resulting from the forces that create the structural and deformational features of the earth's lithosphere, especially its continents, oceans, and mountains.

Of or relating to a tectonic plate or plates.

Relating to construction or building.

Architectural.

Of great, often disruptive consequence or significance

Of or relating to construction or to architecture

(biology) Structural

(geology) Of, relating to, or caused by large-scale movements of the Earth's (or a similar planet's) lithosphere

(figurative) momentous, utter, vast

Of or pertaining to building or construction; architectural.

Structural.

Of, pert. to, or designating, the rock structures and external forms resulting from the deformation of the earth's crust; as, tectonic arches or valleys; tectonic plates.

Pertaining to the structure or movement of the earth's crust;

Of or pertaining to construction or architecture