Sentence examples for massive thrust sheets from inspiring English sources

A horizontal shortening of some 500 miles (800 km) has accompanied that action, much of the distance taken up by massive thrust sheets in the Himalayas.

The mid-mounted laser beamed energy propulsion system, we're told, pulses beams of light that focus in a shroud, to create shock waves that generate massive thrust.

The ophiolite nappes (i.e., thrust sheets) are major sources of chromite deposits.

Some of these thrust sheets have moved 20 to 30 miles (32 to 48 km) to their present positions.

On December 24 , 1943 he was appointed supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, and the next month he was in London making preparations for the massive thrust into Europe.

Several notable findings have resulted from these studies, the most spectacular of which was the discovery of a succession of very low-angle thrust sheets beneath the Appalachian Mountains.

The thrust sheets are mainly composed by the Meso-Cenozoic sedimentary succession pertaining to the Apulian-Adriatic plate margin that is still westerly-subducting beneath the Apennines.

Care was taken to collect paleomagnetic samples only within virtually undeformed thrust sheets, avoiding zones affected by pervasive shear.

The AFT study documents that thrust sheets entered the partial annealing zone from 18 Ma to 13 Ma.

When the motor shuts off the spaceship goes from a massive thrust into weightlessness.

Balancing this massive thrust is a chassis that is nimble, responsive and not half as brutish as the power delivery.