Earth crustal displacement OR Earth crust displacement may refer to
- Plate tectonics, scientific theory which describes the large scale motions of Earth's crust.
- Fault (geology), fracture in Earth's crust where one side moves with respect to the other side.
- Supercontinent cycle, the quasi-periodic aggregation and dispersal of Earth's continental crust.
- Cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis, where the axis of rotation of a planet may have shifted or the crust may have shifted dramatically.
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“It is true, there are the innocent pleasures of country life, and it is sometimes pleasant to make the earth yield her increase, and gather the fruits in their season; but the heroic spirit will not fail to dream of remoter retirements and more rugged paths. It will have its garden-plots and its parterres elsewhere than on the earth, and gather nuts and berries by the way for its subsistence, or orchard fruits with such heedlessness as berries.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)