Sentence examples for plate movement from inspiring English sources

Lithospheric plate movement brought the continents close together on one side of the globe.

The pressure from the plate movement was confined to southeastern Pennsylvania, creating the Piedmont and Ridge and Valley provinces.

Another important consequence of continued plate movement has been the formation of large mountain ranges at the sites of plate collision.

She tries to describe tectonic plate movement and sedimentation in almost the same breath and garbles both, ending up inadvertently describing a geologically impossible process in which seaborne sediment rose "until it appeared above the surface of the sea".

Scientists at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto, in a comprehensive study of the mantle, have come up with a new model that helps to explain plate movement and other phenomena that occur on the crust.

But once the slow plate movement carries an island away from the hot spot, its volcanic material begins to compress, causing the island to start to sink, worsening its erosion prospects.

Subsequent plate movements averaging about 2 cm (0.8 inch) per year have taken the continents to their present position.

By Late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) times, plate movements had brought most of Laurussia into contact with Gondwana and closed the Tethys.

The major factor behind the variations is plate movements and related changes in climate and ocean water circulation.

This lowered sea level, coupled with the closure of narrow seaways probably due to plate movements, isolated the Mediterranean Sea.

Plate movements have altered the course of surface and deep ocean currents and changed the patterns of upwelling, productivity, and biogenic sedimentation.