Sentence examples for uplifted block from inspiring English sources
However, the San Andreas Fault may also be involved, because the Central Coast and Southern Clades occur on the Pacific Plate, the Santa Cruz Mountains occur on a recently uplifted block of the Pacific Plate, and the SF Bay/Sierra and Northern Clades occur on the North American Plate.
The Ukrainian Massif is an uplifted block of Precambrian basement that rises above the surrounding plain of younger sediments.
A sharp natural boundary exists to the west and northwest between this uplifted block, on the one hand, and the low-lying Jiangxi Basin and the southwest part of Zhejiang province, on the other.
We use stratigraphic information from the uplifted block of the BFZ and other outcrops at the basin edges together with available information from neighboring Bétic basins to tentatively correlate the seismic units to the known stratigraphy in the area.
A deep rift valley is not formed because the vertical uplifts are cancelled out by faults that downdrop uplifted blocks.
Relative uplift values reveal the presence of tectonically uplifted blocks together with relatively subsided or lesser uplifted zones along known faults.
Thin-skin structures in the Mesozoic Cenozoic cover are genetically linked to major basement upthrusts, which could be interpreted as basement short-cuts formed during inversion rather than as uplifted blocks associated with major Cenozoic strike-slip faults.
Uplifted structural blocks, many of them trending north to south, are common in some areas, while straight river courses reflect the control exercised by fault zones.
Essentially, Death Valley is a graben, or rift valley, formed by the sinking of a tremendous expanse of rock lying between parallel uplifted, tilted-block mountain ranges to the east and west.
The Sierra del Morro stands out in the Eastern Sierras Pampeanas as a metamorphic block uplifted during the Late Miocene-Pleistocene by a combination of magma injection and tectonic deformation.
The Tetons consist of a gigantic fault block uplifted from Earth's crust beginning some six million years ago; the valley of Jackson Hole, through which flows the Snake River, represents a corresponding subsiding block along the fault line.
