Sentence examples for in tectonic plates from inspiring English sources

Initially it was thought that these sounds were seismic shifts in tectonic plates.

Theoretical reconstruction of the stress fields in tectonic plates or particular tectonic regions is an important geophysical problem.

Severity is calculated by gathering earth-science data wind-patterns to assess the strength of a hurricane, shifts in tectonic plates to data wind-patternsngto of assesstheuake.

They first met in 1992, when a mutual friend took Mr. Gabriel to see Mr. Lepage performing with his company in "Tectonic Plates" at the National Theater in London.

Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, said in a speech last week that the endorsement represented "a shift in tectonic plates" that would allow the Republican Party to appeal to elderly voters as never before.

So if you can identify a return differential, just as with pressure differentials in tectonic plates or volcanoes, you know something is going to blow up.

This Chocolate Geology lesson from National Parks UK uses Mars bars as stand-ins for tectonic plates, Lion bars as sedimentary rock, Crunchies as igneous rock and a smushed Curly Wurly as metamorphic rock.

So you don't get this kind of enormous shifts in the tectonic plates in society except maybe twice in a lifetime.

Nevertheless, a shift in the tectonic plates in the region is taking place.

• The N.H.L. is having other major tremors in its tectonic plates.

However, the heavy burden of neoconservative ideological baggage has, to borrow a phrase, forced a shift in the tectonic plates under the Atlantic.