Sentence examples for eons of plate from inspiring English sources

But the Indian subcontinent has been torn, stretched, and strained by eons of plate tectonic jostling, and that has created weak spots in the crust.

Since the 1990s, however, most geoscientists have begun to accept that some form of plate tectonics occurred throughout the Proterozoic Eon, which commenced 2.5 billion years ago, and some extend these models back into the Archean, more than 2.5 billion years ago.

Because the geological evidences known today support an initiation of plate tectonics on Earth in the Hadean eon, or before about 4 Ga ago (Harrison, 2009), a scenario with deeply subducted boron returned efficiently toward the seafloor via subduction of oceanic slabs and arc volcanism is highly likely.

The elements serve as reliable markers of how rapidly Earth's internal temperature has cooled over the eons, and the team's analyses suggest that a slowdown in cooling means a corresponding slowdown or stopping of plate tectonics.

After gorging on bear meat, the expedition's scientists bring back evidence that helps prove the controversial theory of continental drift, which gives rise in due course to the science of plate tectonics, which explains why it was that Krakatoa blew itself up--and will do so again, in eons hence.

They incorporate eons of accumulated folk observations.

held in water vapour measure up to eons of weather.

Eons of human progress could end next year with the smash of an errant meteor.

To drive through Orkney is to drive through eons of prehistory to history itself.

Lomax envisioned the relentless spread of a centralized pop that would erase eons of tradition.

In California, she noted, this hardy breed has already survived eons of drought, floods and earthquakes.