Sentence examples for plate extension from inspiring English sources
Development of the SDC and its extensive normal faulting were a result of upper plate extension and rifting in the protoarc forearc crust caused by rapid slab rollback in the Mirdita basin, reminiscent of the late Cenozoic extensional tectonics of the Izu Bonin Mariana system in the Western Pacific.
It is found that optimum geometry of planar mesa terminated diode requires shorter metal plate extension (1/3 of the field plate terminated diode).
However, these arguments are less compelling on a regional scale where, for example, local changes in plate motions and changes from upper plate extension to compression in arcs or vice versa might lead to changes in rates of explosive volcanism.
In particular, eruptions in volcanic arcs along contractional subduction zones, which are mostly E- or NE-directed, occur when LOD increases, whereas they are more frequent when LOD decreases along the opposite W- or SW-directed subduction zones that are rather characterized by upper plate extension and back-arc spreading.
Patients were placed on a standard table (No.1150.30A0; Maquet, Germany) with a radiolucent carbon back plate and a plate extension (No.1150.45B0 and 1150.46B0; Maquet, Germany) in supine position with a sterile draped free moveable leg on the injured side to allow intraoperative manipulation for indirect reduction-maneuvers.
Subsidence possibly was related to multiple cycles of intra-plate extension that complemented coeval fault-controlled subsidence.
Scales are absent; instead, the back is covered by thin, bony, transparent plates, extensions of the vertebral column, which form a cuirass (body armour).
The anchorage techniques considered are mechanical anchors, FRP bars, longitudinal FRP plates, extensions to the underside of the flange, and carbon FRP CFRPP) ropes.
The Bending-Gradient theory for thick plates is the extension to heterogeneous plates of Reissner Mindlin theory originally designed for homogeneous plates.
It is a dendritic snowflake with plate-like extensions.
Once upon a time, the city served as "a collective shield or plate armor," an extension of our skins, McLuhan wrote in 1964.
