a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, including especially Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, and Breton, which survive now in Ireland, the Scottish Highlands, Wales, and Brittany. adjective. 2. of the Celts or their languages.
Movement of tectonic plates-higher. Volcanoes, mountains and earthquakes occur at the edges of tectonic plates-their creation depends on the direction the plates are moving.
Dissipation of heat from the mantle is acknowledged to be the original source of the energy required to drive plate tectonics through convection or large scale upwelling and doming. The current view, though still a matter of some debate, asserts that as a consequence, a powerful source of plate motion is generated due to the excess density of the oceanic lithosphere sinking in subduction zones.