Sentence examples for neighboring plates from inspiring English sources

The deliciously intricate geology of China — basically an immense tectonic plate endlessly tormented by titanic collisions with the neighboring plates that bear India and Australia — is of course responsible for both the fabulous complexities and the extreme isolation of Wulingyuan.

The spacings between neighboring plates has a distribution in the 200 3000 nm range, peaking around 900 nm.

These different forces are shearing the tectonic plate apart: While the northwestern tip of the plate is slamming into southern Asia and slowing down and has been doing so for 8 million years or so the central and eastern portions of the plate are still free to slide beneath neighboring plates, Delescluse says.

The driving forces of plate motion are generally classified into three types (e.g., Forsyth and Uyeda 1975): body forces (e.g., slab-pull and ridge-push; hereafter expressed as (T_mathrm{BD})), plate boundary forces (e.g., collision, suction, and shear forces between neighboring plates; (T_mathrm{PB})), and resultant resistance forces (e.g., mantle drag and slab resistance; (T_mathrm{RS})).

However, major tectonic changes, such as reorganization of neighboring plate motions, alteration of tectonic boundary, and opening of an ocean basin, would leave small circle swath with respect to reference Euler poles.

The positive material on one side of this 'bipolar plate' faces the negative material of the neighboring plate, again with a separator between them.

When I returned from the restroom, the remnants of the neighboring cookie plate were ours.

An electronic fingerprint was assigned with the software FPPipeliner v1.0 and further analyzed for organelle contamination, neighboring, and plate-wide contamination with FPMiner (BioinforSoft LLC, USA).

The inter-electrode distances between the two neighboring electrode plates varied between 2.5 and 10 cm (Table 1).

If the overall fragment identity of two clones at neighboring position within one plate or at identical position in subsequent plates of the library is higher than 50%, these clones were flagged.

Since large earthquakes are likely to produce stress concentrations in neighboring regions along the plate boundary, the mainshock might have been triggered by this sequence of foreshocks and this mainshock have caused aftershocks.