Sentence examples for upper plate from inspiring English sources
When the top aluminum plate was negative, the rays moved down; when the upper plate was positive, the rays moved up.
Inclined lines denote the upper plate boundary.
Free convection takes place at the up side of the upper plate and forced convection below the upper plate.
The crustal thickness of the upper plate is 30 km.
2, 15, and 30 km, below the upper plate interface.
It separates the northern upper plate (Oman) from southern lower plate (Socotra Island) and may have generated rift-induced decompression melting and volcanism affecting the upper plate.
Driscoll and Karner (1998) labeled this phenomenon as the "upper plate paradox" because more often than not conjugate margins both exhibited the "upper plate" characteristics.
Quantitative amplitude decay curves support the observed upper plate Qp values.
Three injection and three production ports were drilled on the sides of the upper plate.
They concluded that the neutral plane is located about 22 km beneath the upper plate interface.
The stress field in the upper plate was completely transformed after the Tohoku-Oki earthquake.
