Sentence examples for rift zones from inspiring English sources

Carbon dioxide is emitted from volcanoes and vents in rift zones and subduction zones.

Fissure vents are common in Iceland and along the radial rift zones of shield volcanoes.

Fumaroles on the rift zones of Kilauea, however, are richer in water vapour and sulfur because much of the carbon dioxide leaks away at the summit before the magma is intruded into the rift zones.

Volcanoes occur along both subduction and rift zones but are generally absent along strike-slip plate margins.

Most earthquakes occur at the subduction zones or along strike-slip faults, but some minor ones occur in rift zones.

Variations in the rate of spreading in rift zones and the degree of volcanic activity near plate margins have influenced atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations throughout Earth's history.

In the rift zones where the plates comprising the Earth's thin crust separate, material from the mantle wells upward, cools, and solidifies.

Of the 1,450 volcanoes listed in the table of landform types, 80 percent occur along subduction zones, and 15 percent occur along rift zones.

At those depths active submarine volcanoes have yet to be observed, though many hydrothermal areas have been found along submarine rift zones by research submersibles.

Its elongate shape records a long history of fluid lava flows not only from its summit but from its two persistent rift zones.

Because such conditions are rare, the majority of today's geothermal power plants are located in rift zones or volcanically active parts of the world.