| In these zones one section of the Earth's crust, called a tectonic plate, moves over or under another. |
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| Earthquakes and tsunamis of those proportions have hit us in the past as we do live in a very vulnerable part of the world, on a tectonic plate. |
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| The North American tectonic plate is pushing west? by the way, you're standing on top of that plate right now. |
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| Which tectonic plate was not involved in the collision that created the Rocky Mountains? |
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| In a tectonically active basin, tectonic stresses and strains arise from tectonic plate movement. |
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| It separates north from south, German from Italian, the African tectonic plate from the European. |
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| Geologically the mountains are an isolated block of the African tectonic plate on the edge of the continental rift with Arabia. |
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| But even without help from a restless tectonic plate, folks in the napa Valley get easily agitated. |
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| The wind, tectonic plate movement, and whale song compose a complex web of sound. |
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| The monument's signature towering monoliths, spires, and steep canyons reflect millions of years of erosion, faulting, and tectonic plate movement. |
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| And from that point Federer eases through with the inevitable momentum of a tectonic plate. |
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| Simulating earth mantle and tectonic plate movements to improve our understanding of earthquakes and volcano eruptions. |
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| A hotspot is more or less stationary relative to the moving tectonic plate above it, so a chain of islands results as the plate drifts. |
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| The African Plate is a major tectonic plate straddling the equator as well as the prime meridian. |
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| Accretion occurs as mantle is added to the growing edges of a tectonic plate, usually associated with seafloor spreading. |
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| Hot mantle materials rising up in a plume can spread out radially beneath the tectonic plate causing regions of uplift. |
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| At the time of their deposition, one tectonic plate was being subducted beneath another at the closure of the Iapetus Ocean. |
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| This holds true for Australia, which sits on its own continental lithosphere and tectonic plate. |
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| The Kula Plate is an ancient tectonic plate that used to subduct under Alaska. |
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| Just to the west of the mid-ocean ridge that separates South America's tectonic plate from Africa's, it is the top of a volcano which rises steeply from abyssal plains more than four kilometres below the surface of the ocean. |
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| Hannah Jones says we're seeing a tectonic plate shift in transparency. |
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| Small changes over the years have added up to a huge tectonic plate shift. |
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| I like being on a vast tectonic plate with no one else I know. |
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| Most important, it is nowhere near the edge of a tectonic plate. |
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| In fact, in southwestern British Columbia and adjacent parts of the United States, an offshore tectonic plate is forcing its way under the edge of the continental crust, causing earthquakes and creating mountain ranges. |
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| These days we can measure time sufficiently accurately to detect small changes in the Earth's rotation, caused by tectonic plate movements and the displacements in the rocks during earthquakes. |
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| This rift valley is the landward extension of the huge Syrian-African Rift Valley System, formed along a tectonic plate boundary zone that stretches from the Indian Ocean, through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Eliat. |
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| The massif is a smaller structural unit of the crust than a tectonic plate and is considered the fourth largest driving force in geomorphology. |
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| The Caribbean Plate is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the north coast of South America. |
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| Earthquakes are rare because Florida is not located near any tectonic plate boundaries. |
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| The Pacific Plate, which makes up most of Oceania, is an oceanic tectonic plate that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean. |
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| Australia is situated in the middle of the tectonic plate, and therefore currently has no active volcanism. |
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| Geophysically, Nicaragua is surrounded by the Caribbean Plate, an oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Cocos Plate. |
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| Major mountains tend to occur in long linear arcs, indicating tectonic plate boundaries and activity. |
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| They will sit on both sides of the fault lines and measure the movement of each tectonic plate. |
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| Giant earthquakes will more likely occur in subduction zones where one tectonic plate goes under another. |
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| This tectonic plate converges with the Cocos, Nazca, and North American plates to form the Middle America Trench, a major subduction zone. |
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| The upper basalt layers of older LIPs may have been removed by erosion or deformed by tectonic plate collisions occurring after the layer is formed. |
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| The North American Plate is a tectonic plate covering most of North America, Greenland, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores. |
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| New England and Long Island are far from the nearest tectonic plate boundaries, which are far out in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, the USGS reports. |
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| Geologically it is a part of the same tectonic plate as Australia. |
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| The reason is that the Iranian government is not open about its nuclear programme and the country sits on the boundaries of more than one tectonic plate. |
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| Diego Garcia is frequently subject to earthquakes caused by tectonic plate movement along the Carlsberg Ridge located just to the west of the island. |
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| The USGS pinpointed the quake in the Nazca tectonic plate area. |
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| Volcanoes formed near or above subducting zones are created because the subducting tectonic plate adds volatiles to the overriding plate that lowers its melting point. |
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