Sentence examples for continental plate from inspiring English sources

"They were never part of the African continental plate.

The continental plate movement and collisions during this period generated pressure and heat between continents.

Figure 3: Collision of a continental plate with an oceanic plate.

Straddling an active continental plate boundary, the region is often hit by earthquakes.

Off Japan, part of the leading edge of the overriding continental plate had become somewhat detached from the main mass.

In Mexico's case, an oceanic plate — the Cocos — is gradually sinking beneath a continental plate — the North American.

When a continental plate and an oceanic plate come together, the leading edge of the oceanic plate is forced beneath the continental plate and down into the asthenosphere a process called subduction.

A multidisciplinary update on continental plate tectonics and plate boundary discontinuities Understanding the origin and evolution of the continental crust continues to challenge Earth scientists.

A separate continental plate that rifted from the supercontinent Rodinia in the Late Precambrian; contained a large part of north-central Africa.

A separate continental plate that existed from the Latest Precambrian to the Carboniferous, composed of a large part of central Russia, namely Siberia.

As the ocean floor moves away from the mid-oceanic ridge it will eventually come into contact with a continental plate and will be subducted underneath the continent.