What does «diastrofismo» mean in Spanish?
- Change in the configuration of the earth's crust, which produces alterations or deformations in the lithosphere. It is also called tectonicism or tectonics. Diastrophism causes the uplift and subsidence of land and gives rise to continents, oceanic depressions, plateaus and mountains. Diastrophic forces acting on the rocks resulted in the formation of faults and the folding of strata.