Sentence examples for ridge segment from inspiring English sources

Kittatinny Valley is bordered to the northwest by the Kittatinny Ridge segment of the Ridge and Valley Appalachian Mountains, and to the southeast by the New Jersey Highlands.

It may have been caused by the non-offset ridge segment.

In Figure 9, we follow Eagles et al. [ 2004a] in showing a Bellingshausen-Phoenix ridge segment to the east of the Charcot salient.

The distances between active vents vary from a few kilometers along a ridge segment to 100s of kilometers between contiguous segments.

In south-western Alberta, esker distribution suggests that both water and sediment supply may have been important controls; the longest esker ridge segments are located within meltwater valleys partially filled by glaciofluvial sediments, whereas the shortest esker ridge segments are located in areas dominated by clast-poor till.

Since the ridge segments were subparallel to the former margin, the Izanagi plate detached as a whole, resulting in a drastic change in mantle flow dynamics across the whole West Pacific and East Asia (Seton et al. 2015).

Considerable mixing among populations of vent organisms along ridge segments [22], and the lack of genetic structure that has been observed for numerous vent taxa over oceanic ridge scales [16] argue for long dispersal capacities of hydrothermal vent taxa.

Because back-arc basin hydrothermal systems in the western Pacific are located on isolated ridge segments (in contrast to the linear, semi-continuous series of segments on mid-ocean ridges), it has been hypothesized that reduced connectivity among western Pacific back-arc basins may yield more endemic vent fauna within discrete back-arc basins [ 32].

As a result of the continental effect, the subtropical ridge is segmented into surface high-pressure cells.

The unit consists of straight and well-defined ridges with a segment length of tens of meters to kilometers.

Our structural interpretation of the transform boundary geometry shows that the ridge and platform margin segments were each subjected to separate thermal influences from two different migrating spreading centres.