Sentence examples for continental basement from inspiring English sources

The line along the base of the continental basement (green) is the plate-boundary fault.

Extensional geometries locally resulted in tectonic sampling of laterally discontinuous slivers of allochthonous continental basement and pre-rift sediments from the hanging wall blocks.

(5) Beneath the inner plateau, a fore‐arc basin lies above the top of the Calabrian continental basement imaged at 8 km depth.

Fault breccias pre-dating Alpine metamorphism are common at the top of the ultramafics and throughout the continental basement slivers, but they are absent in all other lithologies.

In the latter domains, continental basement and hydrated peridotites were exhumed at the basin floor during Jurassic rifting along long-offset detachment systems.

In the Schistes Lustrés of Alpine Corsica (France) serpentinized mantle rocks are associated with continental basement and meta-volcanic/-sedimentary cover rocks.

The contact between serpentinites and slivers of continental basement, relatively flat-lying over several kilometers, is characterized by evidence of cataclastic deformation pre-dating Alpine High-Pressure ductile fabrics.

We assume that the high variability of the sedimentary successions as well as the presence of a basement composed of continental and upper-mantle rocks is consistent with an origin at an OCT.

The huge allochthonous deposits emplaced in this region (the so-called "Olistostrome" of the Gulf of Cadiz) are described in terms of three different domains on the basis of the seismic architecture, the main tectonic features and the nature of the basement, oceanic or continental.

Breakfast is in the stripped-down basement, a self-service continental that is soon to be replaced by a more substantial meal for £4, I was told.

The area is the source of recent interest about the evolution of the oldest continental nuclei, or cratons: large areas of basement rock from which scientists speculate continents have grown.