Sentence examples for observations of rift from inspiring English sources

Observations of rift axis migration through time may reflect cooling, hardening and subsequent abandonment of the rift axis during either long-term periods of slow extension or periods of tectonic quiescence.

Observations of rifting which is currently taking place at the Afar triangle in northeastern Ethiopia, and observations of the consequences of rifting throughout the East African Rift System (Fig. 6) can help to shed light on the nature of petroleum-deposit-related rifting that has occurred elsewhere.

Adherents to the idea, following a theory first proposed by Munro Edmonson, allege that the Maya based their calendar on observations of the Great Rift or Dark Rift, a band of dark dust clouds in the Milky Way, which, according to some scholars, the Maya called the Xibalba be or "Black Road".

When combined with existing observations of asymmetry across the rift in terms of depth of melting column and magmatic plumbing systems, it is evident that the mechanical structure of the rift, defined during the initial stages of breakup, has played a dominant role in the initial development of magma assisted rifting in the MER.

A brief treatment of rift valleys follows.

You can't cross or master this kind of rift.

Rifting appears to underlie the formation of rift basins and later the massive eruption of basalt.

Distinct stages of rift evolution during the early Cretaceous can be recognized, namely the early syn-rift, rift climax and late syn-rift stages.

The basin architecture reveals the occurrence of rift and supradetachment basins in the Vavilov rift zone.

This is characteristic of rift basins (Lashin and Mogren 2012).

Non-localized eruptions, typical of rift zone activity, have produced a series of low-lying ridges down the majority of the east rift zone's length.