Sentence examples for rift zone from inspiring English sources

The ridge is in effect a long rift zone of mountains, volcanoes, and faulted plateaus.

In Iceland the volcanic vents often are long fissures parallel to the rift zone where lithospheric plates are diverging.

The east rift zone supports numerous pit craters ending in Makaopuhi, with a depth of 1,000 feet (300 metres).

Subsequent eruptions of Kilauea have occurred primarily in the volcano's east rift zone; these became continuous beginning in 1983.

A high heat flow, which is associated with the extrusion of magma and with seafloor spreading, exists in the rift zone.

In September 2015, volcanologists raised an alert after detecting an increase in the number of shallow earthquakes near the summit and the upper south-west rift zone.

During 2011, major variations occurred in level that were related to east rift zone activity.

The lineations are concentrated on the eastern side of the back-arc rift zone.

Number of located earthquakes per day in the upper East Rift Zone.

However, the NSL zone is a rift zone and not a subduction zone.

The geodynamics of the Cambay Rift Zone, India, is quite complex.