Sentence examples for tectonically active region from inspiring English sources

This is a tectonically active region notable for earthquakes.

The characteristics of wackes all point to rapid deposition in turbidity currents (density currents resulting from an increase in sediment concentration) in a tectonically active region.

This study of drainage systems in a tectonically active region is based on the Geographical Information Systems GISS) integration of data from an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and a weighted linear combination (WLC) procedure with multiple criteria data.

Moreover, the present Palar River basin exhibits evidences of neotectonic activity such as soft sediment deformation structures, anomalous drainage deflections and reactivation of lineaments and faults further indicating that the Palar River is still draining a tectonically active region.

The model of Hall and others is based mainly on the paleomagnetic data from eastern Indonesia, which is a tectonically active region, and it strongly depends on the results from a single locality mean at about 40 Ma Halll et al., 1995a, b).

Although Mongolia is considered to be a tectonically active region located in the transition zone between a N-S convergence to the south in the Tien Shan and a NW-SE extension to the north in the Baikal rift (Baljinnyam et al., 1993), it still remains the least-studied and a poorly-understood region in northeast Asia because of the lack of seismic and geodetic observations.

Coda Q is regarded as a good indicator of tectonic activity such as seismicity because tectonically active regions show low coda Q values and stable regions show high coda Q values on a large scale (e.g., Singh and Herrmann 1983).

The data from Palau and Saipan may have been affected by local tectonic movement because these islands belong to tectonically active regions, but further studies are needed to resolve the inconsistency.

Since the 1980s, metamorphic petrologists and structural geologists have increasingly worked together to correlate metamorphic and tectonic events and thereby increase understanding of crustal dynamics in tectonically active regions of Earth.

The Namche Barwa Syntaxis, as one of the most tectonically active regions, remains an appropriate place to explore the relationship between tectonics, surface processes, and landscape evolution.

The Afar region of northern Ethiopia is one of the most tectonically active regions in the world, and is the site of abundant recent volcanic activity and seismicity (Wright et al. 2006; Darrah et al. 2012; Chernet 2013; Yirgu 2013).