Sentence examples for floor uplift from inspiring English sources

The device was designed to dissipate the kinetic energy during the process of rapid floor uplift and immediate velocity change from the cab to gallery roof impact.

Slow secular subsidence over preceding centuries was interrupted by caldera floor uplift beginning about 60 years ago.

Alternatively, connectors could be used with the PreWEC system to isolate the floor from the uplift of the wall and eliminate damage to the floor diaphragm.

The caldera floor had also uplifted by 10 inches in five years.

Its exposure along the coast is a result of both sea level change, and uplift of the coastline due to active sea-floor spreading in the Red Sea Basin.

Its story is uplifting.

More permanent is the wholesale uplift of sea-floor along coasts that have experienced major tremors such as the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.

Lake Okeechobee, Florida, is cited as being such a basin, formed by uplift of the ocean floor.

Uplift pressures along the floor between the two filters are controlled by the location of both filters.

If the earthquake occurs in shallower water, the uplift of the sea floor would displace less water, setting off a smaller tsunami.

The tremors were the result of a violent uplift of the sea floor 80 miles off the coast of Sendai, where the Pacific tectonic plate slides beneath the plate Japan sits on.