Sentence examples for earth plate from inspiring English sources
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An electrode, in the form of a metal plate buried in external soil, used to earth the electrical system of a building
(Earth & Space Science) Structure of the earth; plate tectonics Students design a method to predict volcanic eruptions and protect human lives and societies.
The primary learning goals for the RoomQuake unit included developing an understanding of earth science concepts such as the layers of the earth, plate tectonics, and convection currents, as well as more specific concepts related to the characteristics of earthquakes, such as how they are distributed and how they are measured.
This is mostly because our knowledge of the style of early Earth plate tectonics is limited.
Finally, I review evidence indicating that the dynamic Earth (plate tectonics), geological processes unknown to Darwin, must be integrated into a more realistic picture of the evolution of life on our ever changing "planet of the microbes" [ 5].
"And this one shows evidence of a continental collision where two of the earth's plates hit together, and then later, hot magma intruded at 1,000 degrees centigrade".
Geophysicists said it was commonplace for minor tremors to occur somewhere in the metropolitan area each year as a result of normal shifts of the earth's plates.
That is because for tens of millions of years the greatest collision of all between the earth's plates has been happening there.
Seismologists have identified an active friction of the earth's plates between Chittagong and the Sylhet region, says Syed Humayun Akhter, professor of geology and seismology at the University of Dhaka and an author of the Nature Geoscience report.
Why oceanic crust was thinner would become apparent with the later discovery of mid-ocean spreading ridges, where earth's plates were tearing apart at the seams, generating new crust.
In the summer of 2007, a team of French and American researchers traveled to Kenya's Lake Turkana in Africa's Great Rift Valley, where earth's plates are tearing apart and some of the earliest humans first appear.
Although we are still unable to predict when a volcano will erupt, we have managed to acquire at least a partial understanding of the forces that can cause the earth's plates to move, producing the not unrelated seismic phenomena of earthquakes and volcanoes.
