Sentence examples for spreading zones from inspiring English sources

In certain cases, two en échelon overlapping spreading zones trending in a NS direction are connected by a >200 long orthogonal transform zone, forming a complex transform-ridge pattern (Fig. 2e).

By examining the cooling rate of rocks that formed more than 10 miles beneath the Earth's surface, scientists led by The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences have found that water probably penetrates deep into the crust and upper mantle at mid-ocean spreading zones, the places where new crust is made.

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].

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.

If you look at the diagrams his firm and Arup have developed to accompany the design, what you see seeping out from the new freeway bridge into nearby neighborhoods is not a plume of pollution but a spreading zone of benefits: an expanded wildlife corridor, better equipped schools, improved air quality.

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 spread zones, Dr. Renfrew said, are mostly the result of recent dispersals caused by agricultural inventions.

When the anchor bolt's pre-tight torque is 300 N m, with the increase of anchor bolt's pre-tight force, the anchor bolt's prestress spread range increases at roadway roof and two side coal walls, and in roadway's top coal, the spread zones can basically join and form one large zone.

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