Sentence examples for large rift from inspiring English sources

These calderas are thought to form when large rift eruptions or lateral intrusions remove tremendous quantities of magma from the shallow magma chambers beneath the summit, leaving the ground above the chambers with no support.

In the late Devonian (385 to 359 million years ago), however, the platform's present northeastern margin was rifted; in addition to creating a major ocean, that activity produced two large rift valleys that now extend into the Angaran platform (the Vilyuy, or Viliui, and Chatanga rifts).

Axial Seamount is set on a long, low-lying plateau, with two large rift zones trending 50 km to the northeast and southwest of its center.

For two years, United Kingdom-based Project MIDAS has been monitoring a large rift in the Larsen C ice shelf, located on the northern end of the Antarctic peninsula.

In late Precambrian time, extension from a large tectonic plate or smaller plates moving away from Laurentia thinned its continental crust, forming large rift basins that would ultimately fail to split the continent.

Ir Ovot is located south of the Dead Sea and southeast of Dimona in the Arabah valley, an arid plain located below the Negev plateau and south of the Jordan Rift Valley within the larger Great Rift Valley.

Beyond the fifth chamber a roomy submerged route may be followed for a further 40 m, passing under three large rifts with air spaces, to surface in the ninth chamber - a roomy chamber over 30 m long and the same high — which is used as a base for cave diving operations.

Lake Tanganyika lies some 2,000 feet (600 metres) below the plateau, and the largest rift, that containing the Luangwa River, is a serious barrier to communications.

"Beyond Obama, this is the larger rift: there has been a struggle for the heart and soul of the Democratic party between the corporate/Wall Street wing and the Elizabeth Warren/economic populist wing that's been ongoing for years," Taylor says.

The disagreement between Sanders and Summers embodies a larger rift within liberal ranks about the need to lessen the influence of Wall Street at all levels of government.

What happens: At the end of season five, Rory decides to drop out of Yale, which causes the largest rift yet between the Gilmore girls.