Sentence examples for as rift from inspiring English sources

Based on these observations and a comparison to terrestrial continental rifts, we interpret these series of basins or grabens as rift systems.

The individual transfer zones may have acted as rift propagation barriers, selectively directing rift segments in left stepping patterns along the western South Atlantic margin.

A thorough understanding of their depositional history and controlling factors such as rift shoulders relief, the timing of unroofing, local paleogeography, and sedimentary deposystems is required for establishing an accurate development of known reservoirs and prediction in ongoing exploration.

It will sport lenses that have the same wide field-of-view as Rift and will have a small controller similar to the one that ships with the Gear VR.

Three of the four inner planets (Venus, Earth and Mars) have atmospheres substantial enough to generate weather; all have impact craters and tectonic surface features, such as rift valleys and volcanoes.

Scientists have recognized two classes of geological feature on Oberon: craters and chasmata ('canyons' deep, elongated, steep-sided depressions which would probably be described as rift valleys or escarpments if on Earth).

Intracontinental basins that lack obvious compartmentalization and extensional faults may lie inboard of, and have the same timing as, rifted continental margins.

This ancient seaway was later to extend farther westward to Gibraltar as rifting between Laurasia and Gondwana began in the Late Triassic.

The East Pacific Rise is representative of a divergent boundary where the Pacific Plate and the Nazca Plate (west of South America) are moving apart a process known as rifting.

Many young people who left Europe in 2012 and 2013 to fight against oppression — but not necessarily for freedom — in Syria, grew disenchanted as rifts between Sunni rebel groups caused them to begin killing one another.

In contrast, the inception of sea floor spreading documents a pronounced volcanic phase which appears to reflect asthenospheric upwelling as well as rift-induced convection particularly in the narrow southern margin.