Sentence examples for plate slide from inspiring English sources

She once had a $1,200 serving plate slide from her lap and shatter as she was pricing it.

A sample protein solution (1 μL) of a 1 1 vol/vol mixture of 1 mg/mL of total protein and the matrix solution were applied on a sample spot in a steel plate slide and dried in a warm air stream.

The Pacific Plate, sliding, weighs 345 quadrillion tons.

As mountains rose overhead, the Indian plate slid underneath Asia.

The process of subduction, of one plate sliding under another, is especially cruel along the Ring of Fire.

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.

I repeated his line, dived headfirst across the floor like Pete Rose into home plate, slid into my jeans, then escaped down the back stairs.

Just offshore, the westward-moving Pacific Plate slides under another, slowly dragging Hokkaido down with it (which explains the subsidence of the past 100 years).

Unlike deep-sea trenches, which are found in areas where one tectonic plate slides beneath another, undersea canyons are found along the slopes of most continental margins.

Once the magnet has been removed, the narrator says, the plate slides back into place, and there is no evidence that the mechanism has been bypassed.

The tremors were the result of a violent uplift of the sea floor 80 miles off the coast of Sendai, where the Pacific tectonic plate slides beneath the plate Japan sits on.