Sentence examples for ridge basin from inspiring English sources

Ridge after ridge, basin after basin, the entire pulled-apart topography of the region came into view.

Results from this study provided laterally continuous evidence for sea-level rise, reinforcing the previous study; and also identified the presence of a submerged ridge-basin structure.

The Gulf of Maine's Cashes Ledge Closed Area is home to an underwater mountain range, the peaks, ridges, basins and plains of which serve as a critical habitat for an astonishing array of ocean wildlife.

The strait is about 8 miles (13 km) wide at its narrowest point, and the maximum depth on its sill (submarine ridge between basins) is only a little more than 1,000 feet (300 metres).

The area on continents where a trough bounded by normal faults is forming; the site of crustal extension, similar to that which occurs at mid-oceanic ridges; rift basin or rift valley- n.

These minibasins are often connected to each other by channels, which have been carved through the compensational ridges between basins by turbidity currents.

The rest of Friday and Saturday will be devoted to ridge and lake basin explorations.

The 3.5 and 3.2 Ga greenstones in extensional geological settings (mid-ocean ridge or rift basin) underwent strong carbonation caused by intense interaction with ambient CO2-rich seawater (Nakamura and Kato 2004; Shibuya et al. 2007a, 2012).

It is apparent that there are very few islands close to divergent plate boundaries in the Pacific, largely because both the crests and (steep-sided) flanks of most mid-ocean (or back-arc basin) ridges are in deep ocean.

On the opposite side of the Lomonosov Ridge is the Amerasian Basin.

In the deep oceanic basin, the ridge influences the sediment dispersal pattern from the Early Cretaceous /early part of Late Cretaceous times till the end of Oligocene, which is an important aspect for understanding the hydrocarbon potential of the basin.