Sentence examples for plate spreading from inspiring English sources

The distribution of rift valleys on the continents is irregular and relatively sparse, but they seem to occur at sites of incipient plate spreading.

(4) The first magmas rising from the shallow mantle corner, after being hydrated by the subducting Pacific crust beneath the young oceanic crust near the upper plate spreading centers at ∼49 48 Ma were boninites.

The crustal magma body overlies a region of off-axis delivery of mantle melt that results from a long-lived skew between the axes of mantle upwelling and plate spreading.

Another data set in 40 Ma lithosphere (Everett and Constable 1999), which has less complete azimuthal coverage, suggests higher conductivity (by a factor of 7, 1.4 × 103 Ω m and 1 × 104 Ω m or 7 × 10−4 S/m and 1 × 10−4 S/m) in the uppermost mantle aligned in the direction of fossil plate spreading.

The passive asthenospheric flow caused by imposed plate spreading is dominantly controlled by the material properties of the asthenosphere and, in particular, its viscosity.

Growth curves were determined in LB-medium at 37°C by using both standard plate spreading and OD520 determination in a Bioscreen C machine (OY growth curves AB, Helsinki, Finland).

3. To assemble, place a meringue disk on a plate, spread with a layer of chocolate cream (about 1/4- to 1/2-inch thick), then layer, finishing with cream.

An experimental radial jet inductor is described in which a jet of liquid impinging on a plate spreads out radially as a fast moving thin layer in the narrow space between two parallel discs, accompanied by a thin gas film.

Spores were then plated onto two SM plates, 50 spores per plate spread evenly with K. pneumoniae as a food source.

After sampling and spotting the silica plate, spread in methanol/water (V/V, 85/15), and the R f value of the characterization product was obtained by scanning with Radio-TLC Scanner (Bioscan, USA).

5 Divide the chicory between 4 plates, spreading out some of the leaves.