Sentence examples for base of the crust from inspiring English sources

Crucially, they found no evidence for magma pooling at the base of the crust (a depth of around 40km at Springerville), suggesting the traditional model is plain wrong.

Hence, metamorphism of continental crust occurs at pressures from a few hundred bars (adjacent to shallow-level intrusions) to 10 20 kilobars at the base of the crust.

At the base of the crust, a sharp change in the observed behaviour of seismic waves marks the interface with the mantle.

The results of these experiments showed that thermal conductivity was reduced by as much as 50% at the base of the crust compared with previous estimates.

Thus, the strength of the lithosphere supports these mountains and maintains the base of the crust at a higher level than would have been the case had the strong layer been absent.

This in turn implied that the base of the crust was much hotter than previously thought and that the large amounts of granitic magmas observed in hot mountain belts such as the Himalayas could be generated without the radioactive heat production in the lower crust increasing.

If you don't pierce wholes into the base of the pie crust before baking, you'll find that the steam from the crust will cause it to bubble, creating an uneven and potentially cracked crust base.

But if the ruptured zones of these powerful earthquakes ended, as expected, at the base of the brittle crust, there should be more, not less, microseismic activity there.

The hypocenter of the M9 earthquake was located at the base of the lower crust.

We identified a vertically elongated low-velocity anomaly near the base of the forearc crust on the southern side of a zone of LFEs (LV3 in Figure 4).

This suggests the possibility that the seismic burst at the base of the brittle crust indicates the hypocenter of past and/or future large earthquakes.