Sentence examples for rate of uplift from inspiring English sources

Vertical entrenchment produces different valley styles depending on the size of the river and the magnitude and rate of uplift.

Its slow rate of uplift was matched by the steady downcutting of the Colorado River and its tributaries, producing the Grand Canyon one of the most spectacular gorges in the world.

We use terrace levels and associated travertine as well as speleothem data along the Danube River to quantify its incision rate and thus, estimate the amount and rate of uplift at the axis of the Hungarian Mountain Range (HMR).

The rate of uplift in the Himalayas seems to be rapid in two parallel zones: (1) at the very front of the range where the ancient metamorphic and sedimentary rocks of the Lesser Himalayas have been thrust up and onto the young sediments, and (2) beneath the Great Himalayas.

Rapid uplift happened during 45 25 Ma, with a rate of uplift and denudation of approximately 110 m/Ma.

The rate of uplift in the LOS direction was approx. 10 cm/year, and that of subsidence was approx. 4 cm/year.

Thereafter, we suggest rates of incision matched rates of uplift.

The average rates of uplift were lower to the east of this major relief.

These values show the transition from a rapidly eroding system adjusting to uplift, to a system where rates of uplift approach those of erosion.

As long as the current plate configuration and rates of uplift persist (and continue to outstrip sea-level rise), more of Zealandia will emerge from the ocean in the future.

The concept gives a plausible explanation for the presence of anomalous rates of uplift and subsidence and multi-wavelength folding inside the basin.