Nastasia /nas-ta-sia/ [2 sylls.] as a girls' name is of Greek origin, and the meaning of Nastasia is resurrection.Short form of Anastasia.Actress Nastassja Kinski. Kreatif forms: Nastazia, Neastasia, Nestasia.ow popular is Nastasia? Nastasia is an uncommonly occurring given name for women but a somewhat prominent last name for both adults and children (#103706 out of 150436, Top 69%).
Tectonic processes are those that build up the surface of th e earth. They are revealed by tectonic structures such as faults and folds. Mountain building is shown by the presence of the mountains themselves, or by the presence of unconformities (where mountain-building took place in the past).
By definition the word plate in geologic terms means a large slab of solid rock. Tectonics is a part of the Greek root for to build and together the terms define how the Earth's surface is built up of moving plates. The theory of plate tectonics itself says that the Earth's lithosphere is made up individual plates that are broken down into over a dozen large and small pieces of solid rock.