High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tectonic-climatic interactions refers to Earth’s natural climatic and tectonic processes and the potential influences exerted on each other. The geologic processes include orogenesis, volcanism, and erosion and the climatic processes include atmospheric circulation, orographic lift, monsoon circulation and the rain shadow effect. Geological processes are rarely instantaneous and thus workers are limited to what they observe in the earth’s natural record. As is common in geology, these constraints have led to different schools of thought and questions regarding the interactions between climate and tectonics, mainly is climate the cause of terrain uplift or is it tectonism that causes changes in the climate? Support for both theories is included in this article as well as investigations of major mountain ranges and respective climates.