Sentence examples for main rift zone from inspiring English sources

The groups interdigitated with lava groups from the Reyðarfjörður volcanic zone to the east, and the exhumed Breiðdalur Thingmuli volcanic zone which appear to have formed as a flank lineament parallel the main rift zone.

Both volcanic complexes are still active, the first through two main rift zones and the second through the Teide Pico Viejo central complex.

Tahiti-Nui is composed of a main shield volcano cut by two huge landslides on each side of a main E W rift zone.

The highest values occur in the basins incising the main E W rift zone and/or the lateral rims of the northern and southern landslide depressions.

Deep erosion was first constrained along the axis of the main E W rift zone, where numerous dykes compartmentalize the volcanic structure into large unstable blocks.

Pinnacles National Monument, area of spirelike rock formations 500 to 1,200 feet (150 to 365 metres) high in the hilly Gabilan Range of west-central California, U.S. The pinnacles lie just west of the San Andreas Fault (the main component of the San Andreas Rift Zone), about 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Salinas.

In this study, we analyze syndepositional fault characteristics of the main rift I stage in the southeastern fault zone of the Qingxi Sag, Jiuquan Basin.

In addition, part of the Moho topography is controlled by these shear zones and developed during the period of main rift extension in the Neocomian.

These two syndepositional faults occurred in the southeastern fault zone of the Qingxi Sag are marked by two different patterns and activity characteristics during the main rift I stage.

The northern rift zone of Axial Seamount is a 5 km long ridge running 10 to 20 degrees northeast of the main caldera.

To split the Earth's crust; rift zone- n.