Sentence examples for inch per year from inspiring English sources

Sea level is currently rising at about 1.8 millimetres (0.07 inch) per year.

This force pulls the Apennines apart at the extremely slow rate of fractions of an inch per year.

Subsequent plate movements averaging about 2 cm (0.8 inch) per year have taken the continents to their present position.

He found that the two sides of the fault move past each other at a rate of about a quarter of an inch per year.

The actual average rate at which the two sides of the Hayward Fault slide past each other is approximately half an inch per year.

The northward push of the Arabian Plate into the Euasian Plate with a speed of approximately one inch per year is the ultimate cause of the tectonic activity.

The Pacific plate is being thrust beneath the North American plate at a rate of ~6-7 cm (or 2-3 inch) per year.

The rise in sea level may proceed on its current pace — it's now about 0.1 inch per year — or it may not.

The mountain (small) glaciers of the world are thought to be contributing 0.2 to 0.4 millimetres (0.01 to 0.02 inch) per year to the rise.

The accumulation that he estimates is already occurring would lower worldwide sea levels by one-tenth to four-tenths of an inch per year.

Global spreading rates range from 10 mm (0.4 inch) per year or less up to 160 mm (6.3 inches) per year.