Sentence examples for geological rift from inspiring English sources

A huge crevice opened right through its ground floor, a geological rift tearing apart the architectural fabric.

Sometimes the division between right and left is just a minimal difference of angle and level, as if the view had suddenly been changed by a geological rift.

The proof of this came from matching patterns of two pairs of geological rifts in the western United States and India.

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Lacustrine basins in China with similar age and tectonic settings share comparable geological history, e.g., Cenozoic rift lacustrine basins can also be described as a succession of pre-rift, syn-rift, and post-rift stages, allowing them to be regionally correlated for tectonic development, sedimentary evolution, source rock and reservoir distribution (Jiang et al. 2013a, b).

The road dips a precipitous path along the ridge from where the deep geological gash of the Great Rift Valley cascades downwards to meet its bottom at the Dead Sea, 400m below sea level.

The area also contains the highest density of geological data in the North Sea rift system (Beach 1986), including a large amount of 3D seismic survey, deep sea profiles and dipmeter data, in addition to cores and other information from about more than 150 exploration and production wells (Petterson et al. 1990; Zanella and Coward 2003).

Estimates for the split between the epibenthic sharpfins and the predominantly pelagic to benthopelagic roundfins in Lake Matano widely coincide with geological age estimates of this rift lake.

The 3.5 and 3.2 Ga greenstones in extensional geological settings (mid-ocean ridge or rift basin) underwent strong carbonation caused by intense interaction with ambient CO2-rich seawater (Nakamura and Kato 2004; Shibuya et al. 2007a, 2012).

Fluoride gets into the water supply from the geological rock formations of the Ethiopian Rift Valley.

Seismologists study geologic events and geological time.