Sentence examples for patch of crust from inspiring English sources
Once a quartz-weakened patch of crust has begun stretching or folding, increased heat flow from underlying rocks helps drive water out of the crustal minerals, a process that weakens the rocks even further, ensuring that large-scale deformations take place there and not elsewhere.
The signatures they picked up resembled the striped patterns seen at midocean spreading centers, where alternating magnetic orientations are imprinted on new patches of oceanic crust as Earth's magnetic field flip-flops over time.
David Applegate, senior science adviser for earthquakes at the geological survey, said during a conference call with reporters that the rupture occurred along a section of the fault zone about 180 miles long and 50 miles wide, "a very significant patch of the earth's crust".
Lay rounds of crust on squirrel.
Crimped/Fluted Edge of Crust: CO 30 stitches in MC.
I parked in a patch of shade.
In a third patch of forest, Pvt.
Then came that patch of ice.
Why not some other patch of skin?
