Sentence examples for ocean plate from inspiring English sources

That means little sediment is carried offshore to settle in the oceanic trench where the ocean plate dives beneath the continent.

That's what you would expect if jade-producing fluid rose up from sinking oceanic crust long before other material from a sinking ocean plate.

The waterlogged ocean plate then melts at relatively low temperatures.

This rift demarcates the boundary between the Indian Ocean plate, which is tugging eastward and the relatively stable African plate.

The major structures and lithostratigraphy of these units are thrust-fold nappes, thrusted duplexes, and imbricated ocean plate stratigraphy.

On Earth today, one such place is a subduction zone, where an ocean plate slides under a continental plate and is pushed into the mantle.

In some places, like off the coast of the northwestern United States, ocean plates are getting pushed underneath continental ones.

While Pangaea was breaking apart, mountains were forming on the west coast of North America by subduction of the ocean plates beneath the continental plates.

While Pangea was breaking apart, mountains were forming on the west coast of North America by subduction of the ocean plates beneath the continental plates.

Meanwhile, the older, colder and denser ocean plates like those off Java and the Marianas trench in the Pacific would sink more easily and not produce the giant catastrophic quakes.

That extra thermal energy gives the ocean plates more buoyancy as they move farther away from the ridges.