Sentence examples for a major basin from inspiring English sources

The fault system includes a principal displacement zone (PDZ), where most horizontal displacement is accounted for, and a transtensional splay zone (TSZ) in the southern side consisting of a major basin at the fault tip, the Terror Rift, and minor ones paralleling it cratonward.

A significant amount of new data for systems between 1851 and 1886 became available after a major basin-wide reanalysis in 1996, a project led by Jose Fernandez-Paratagas with the collaboration of Henry Diaz.

The Mahanadi river basin, a major river basin in eastern India, is expected to be the worst affected river basins in India in terms of the increase in intensity of floods due to climate change.

Five landscape variables were used to characterize a species' habitat profile to predict its statewide distribution: presence in a major drainage basin, presence in a physiographic region, median watershed slope, level of watershed disturbance, and watershed-stream size.

According to these authors, an indentation of the coastline west of the city formed a major water basin, along the shores of which traces of pre-Roman settlements exist; near the city, two minor basins were present, suitable for hosting harbour structures.

Several hundred methane seeps were recently discovered along the U.S. Atlantic margin, a passive margin without a major hydrocarbon basin.

It seems that, the whole area is portrayed as a part of a major sedimentary basin interrupted by several discontinuities in the form of smaller highs and lows.

The Benue Trough of Nigeria is a major rift basin formed from the tension generated by the separation of African and South American plates in the Early Cretaceous.

Models and observations are combined to estimate the amount of sediment liberated from the landscape by deforestation within a major Andean basin, the Magdalena.

Episodic tectonic uplift and derivation of sands from similar quartzo-feldspathic sources suggest repeated rifting of the cratonic basement and expansion of the rift into a major marine basin.

Long sections of mid-ocean ridge divide the IO into a number of major basins.