Sentence examples for spreading zone from inspiring English sources

Debate still surrounds the cause of this crustal stretching, but an increasingly popular idea among geologists called the slab gap hypothesis states that the spreading zone of the subducted Farallon Plate is pushing the continent apart.

The mid-Atlantic Ridge, a section of the global system of mid-ocean ridges, is a spectacular topographic feature of the Atlantic Ocean stretching from north of Iceland to the Southern Ocean, representing the spreading zone between the Eurasian and American continental plates.

The case was pretty well clinched when evidence for this mechanism was found in the form of "spreading zones" containing alternating strips of magnetized material at regular distances from mid-ocean ridges.

However, the spreading zones of EPS− cells were most composed of randomly distributed single cells (Fig. 6D).

By examining the cellular distribution in the spreading zones, some specific swarming structures, like peninsulas and trails (Fig. 6C), were indentified in EPS+ cells, and such structures are usually observed in the swarms resulting from S motility of M. xanthus on agar [16], [24].

American companies and investors rode out a volatile year in 2011, a year fraught with concerns about a spreading euro zone debt crisis, the possibility of an economic recession in the United States, the first downgrade of the country's credit rating and the fiscal impasse in Washington.

In other areas, a single language family covers a broad area or spread zone.

We determined rhamnolipid content in cultures supplemented with 1, 2 and 4% glucose using both oil-spreading zone method and orcinol sulfuric acid method.

The level of rhamnolipid determined by orcinol sulfuric method was found to be much higher than that by oil-spreading zone when concentration of glucose supplements was 2% or higher (p < 0.01) (Fig. 4f).

Oil-spreading assay was applied for estimation of surfactant activity quantitatively following the method by Morikawa et al. (2000) with a minor modification for better preservation of the round shape of the oil-spreading zone (OSZ).

Oil-spreading analyses indicated that areas of oil-spreading zone in supernatant of ZS1 cultures containing 0.5, 1, 2 and 4% glucose supplements were 25, 50, 170, and 250 cm2/μl, respectively.