Sentence examples for slides beneath from inspiring English sources

Once a humpback lifts its tail and slides beneath the ocean's surface, it becomes invisible.

Scientists agree that this kind of earthquake -- a so-called slab earthquake -- is caused by tension and slippage within a tectonic plate as it slides beneath another plate.

Unlike deep-sea trenches, which are found in areas where one tectonic plate slides beneath another, undersea canyons are found along the slopes of most continental margins.

As the Adria plate slides beneath the Tyrrhenian plate, it curls backward toward the east, disturbing the mantle above it, which in turn forces the overlying crust to stretch like a victim of Procrustes.

The tremors were the result of a violent uplift of the sea floor 80 miles off the coast of Sendai, where the Pacific tectonic plate slides beneath the plate Japan sits on.

Just off its coast is the Nazca plate, which rests below the south-eastern Pacific Ocean and slides beneath the South American tectonic plate by some 9 centimetres a year.

The emerging threat to his rule has slid beneath the surface.

With the sun sliding beneath the horizon, questions of modesty or embarrassment quickly vanished.

The ocean floor in front of India slid beneath the Eurasian plate.

Instead, the puck slid beneath Richter, hit Rick Tocchet's skate and went in at 4 44.

These slab earthquakes originate within a plate, or slab, that is sliding beneath another.