Sentence examples for major plate from inspiring English sources

Most of the volcanoes of the world are aligned along or close to the major plate boundaries, in particular the mid-oceanic ridges and active continental margins (e.g., the "Ring of Fire" around the Pacific Ocean).

Earthquake seismology has largely been responsible for defining the location of major plate boundaries and of the dip of subduction zones down to depths of about 700 kilometres at those boundaries.

Indonesia has the unlucky circumstance of being on a very major plate boundary, and particularly under Java, you have one plate diving directly under another plate, so as it dives under it starts to produce melt that comes up as a volcano".

The thick transparent white line represents the major plate boundary.

Simkin and Siebert (2000) described how over 94% of historical activity occurred at volcanoes along major plate boundaries.

Note the larger differences coincide with some of the major plate boundaries (e.g., the mid-Atlantic ridge).

Algeria sits astride two major plates and is regularly hit by earthquakes, especially along the Mediterranean coast.

In the early nineteen-seventies, plate-tectonic theory then only about five years old—had already gone far in explaining how geophysical phenomena, including earthquakes, volcanism, and mountain building, result from interactions between the major plates at their boundaries.

In the early nineteen-seventies, plate-tectonic theory — then only about five years old — had already gone far in explaining how geophysical phenomena, including earthquakes, volcanism, and mountain building, result from interactions between the major plates at their boundaries.

According to the theory of plate tectonics, the San Andreas Fault represents the transform (strike-slip) boundary between two major plates of the Earth's crust: the Northern Pacific to the south and west and the North American to the north and east.

Traditionally the high strain zones are interpreted as sutures between one or more postulated lithospheric microplates sandwiched between the two major plates.