Sentence examples for Piece of crust from inspiring English sources

Motion along these faults allows a piece of crust to become longer and thinner as deformation progresses.

The largely submerged piece of crust came to rest at the boundary of the Australian Plate and near the Pacific Plate.

A few exquisitely preserved fossils have validated traces of ancient magnetism that suggest this piece of crust has traveled thousands of kilometers north during the last 70 million years.

That's really an important point, because this is one really small piece of crust.

I tore off a piece of crust with my fingertips and popped it in my mouth, crunching through its outer layer to get to the pillowing softness underneath.

So these two small pieces of continent floating on the Earth and moving around, they were essentially one piece of the crust on the Earth, and it was on this one piece of crust that I suggested that this meteorite, which is carbonado, landed.

accrete -- v. To add terranes (small land masses or pieces of crust) to another, usually larger, land mass.

The Olympic Dam deposit lies on the boundary between two distinct pieces of crust, one interpreted as the Archean Paleoproterozoic core to the craton, the other as a Meso Neoproterozoic mobile belt.

James W. Head III, a geology professor at Brown University and an investigator on the Messenger mission, said Mercury could even give clues about how plate tectonics — the motion of pieces of crust — started on Earth.

The process of plate tectonics may be driven by convection in Earth's mantle, the pull of heavy old pieces of crust into the mantle, or some combination of both.

fault -- n. (v). A fracture, or large crack, in the Earth's crust where one side moves up/down/sideways relative to the other; fault block- n. pieces of crust that have slipped into or alongside a fault; fault zone- n. an area with multiple faults.