Sentence examples for transition from continental from inspiring English sources

The transition from continental crust to oceanic crust usually occurs below the continental slope.

This implies a sharp transition from continental to oceanic crust seaward of Davie Ridge.

At the slow spreading Erta Ale segment (Afar, Ethiopia) transition from continental rifting to seafloor spreading is ongoing on land.

Along the Rio Muni transform margin, the transition from continental to oceanic crust occurs across a region of approximately 75-km width.

With the aid of the recently developed CRUST 1.0 model (Laske et al. 2013), we have successfully described the main features of the regional wavefield arising via the crustal structure transitions from continental Asia to the Korean Peninsula, the Japanese subduction zones, and across the Sea of Japan.

This suggests that the transition from the continental to oceanic crustal structure along the northern margin of the Sea of Japan is not as sharp as that along the east close to the Korean Peninsula.

Several investigators have suggested that the Salton Sea geothermal field constitutes an ideal target for accessing supercritical geothermal fluids at reasonable (<4 km) depths because of the very high thermal gradient resulting from the transition from a continental rift zone to a strike-slip plate boundary (Shnell et al. 2015, 2016).

The Salton Trough is part of the complex plate boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate where it undergoes a transition from the continental transform of the San Andreas Fault system to the series of short spreading centers of the East Pacific Rise linked by oceanic transforms in the Gulf of California.

Ding et al. (2003) provided Cenozoic volcanism evidence for the transition from oceanic to continental subduction in Tibet.

There is a rapid transition in the Moho depth from continental structure (around 30 km) to approximately 20 km along the Sea of Japan border.

Generally, the sands were observed to thicken basinward, which is a typical thickening pattern in the Niger Delta Basin and characteristic of transition environment, here, transition from paralic Agbada to continental Benin Formation (Amigun and Bakare 2013).