Sentence examples for ridge axis from inspiring English sources

Johnson, H. P. & Embley, R. W. Axial Seamount: An active ridge axis volcano on the central Juan de Fuca Ridge.

Lamont scientists are also studying subsurface images of the ridge axis, which allows the magma reservoir to be mapped.

This relation introduces a 'band-pass' filter that controls how much of the sea level induced extra melt production reaches the ridge axis throughout a forcing period.

The numerical domain is 200 km deep and 400 km wide, and we assume symmetry along the ridge axis, that is, we model one half of the ridge.

Each numerical calculation provides a rate of CO2 mobilization into the melt phase per metre ridge axis for a particular spreading rate.

Crustal accretion at fast-spreading mid-ocean ridges is believed to be concentrated in a narrow zone up to a few kilometers wide centered beneath the ridge axis.

The magma heats seawater to 662 degrees Fahrenheit (350 degrees Celsius) and moves it through the ocean crust via convection; and the seawater deposits the minerals where it discharges along the ridge axis.

Pitman noticed that recordings of the Earth's magnetic field revealed a pattern that was symmetric with distance from the mid-ocean ridge axis in the southeast Pacific, an observation predicted by seafloor spreading.

Thus, that portion of a fracture zone along an offset ridge axis is a fault boundary between the oppositely moving plates and is called a ridge ridge transform fault.

The largest body is centered 4 km east of the ridge axis and is composed of a large, continuous, flat-topped lens and a series of small, discontinuous, westward-dipping bodies along its western edge.

Recent studies also indicate variability in macrobiological diversity in the diffuse flow regimes along the ELSC ridge axis [13].