Sentence examples for under a continental from inspiring English sources

The largest earthquakes occur in subduction zones, places where an ocean plate collides with and slides under a continental plate, particularly around the edge of the Pacific Ocean.

On Earth today, one such place is a subduction zone, where an ocean plate slides under a continental plate and is pushed into the mantle.

The vegetation history of the Faroe Islands has been investigated in numerous studies all broadly showing that the early-Holocene vegetation of the islands largely consisted of fellfield with gravely and rocky soils formed under a continental climate which shifted to an oceanic climate around 10,000 cal yr BP when grasses, sedges and finally shrubs began to dominant the islands.

Goebbels and the Reich Foreign Ministry under Joachim von Ribbentrop inclined more towards an idea of a continental bloc under German rule, as represented by the Anti-Comintern Pact, Ribbentrop's "European Confederation" project and the earlier Mitteleuropa concept.

The first is that the earthquake occurred at the Sunda-Andaman trench, where the Indo-Australian plate subducts obliquely under the Burma-Sunda subplates: a continental margin.

The Lower Cenomanian Bahariya Formation corresponds to a second-order depositional sequence that formed within a continental shelf setting under relatively low-rate conditions of positive accommodation (< 200 m during 3 6 My).

From Robert III onward the French or Flemish standard for gold was preferred, and during the 16th century, especially under James V and Mary, a strong continental influence on design was apparent in a series of gold coins of originality and frequent beauty.

In the case of the Ecuadorean quake, the Nazca, a heavy oceanic plate, is sliding under the South American, a lighter continental plate, at a rate of about two inches a year.

The age of sedimentation here is only loosely controlled by industrial drilling sites both under the continental margin at Indus Marine A-1 (Shuaib and Tariq Shuaib 1999), as well as in deeper water at PAK-G2 (Fig. 4), which penetrated into Eocene carbonates related to the early stages breakup of the Arabian Sea.

Topographic heterogeneity under dry continental climate can create a landscape mosaic called "exposure-related forest-steppe", characterized by a regular pattern of forest on the north- and steppe on the south-facing slopes.

Spokane has a humid continental climate (Dsb under the Köppen classification), a rare climate due to its elevation and significant winter precipitation; Spokane, however, is adjacent to and sometimes even classified as a cool-summer Mediterranean climate (Csb) because the average temperature for the coldest month is just over 27 °F.