Examples of using Tectonic plates in English and their translations into Chinese
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Geophysicists have discovered something startling about tectonic plates: when under extreme stress, they hit the gas and can accelerate in speed by up to 20 times.
The state straddles the North American and Pacific tectonic plates and is crisscrossed by the San Andreas and other active fault systems.
Space Geodesy Centre The movement of slow moving and constantly changing tectonic plates produces mountains, earthquakes and volcanoes, and these phenomena affect the environment and climate.
This means that there is not formed tectonic plates, which are the result of the collision and crushing their edges becomes formation of mountain ranges.
The former is a natural wonderland, sitting between two tectonic plates and boasting crystal clear streams, forests, and incredible geology.
The two big tectonic plates of the continents had once met here in Iceland to create a volcanic wonder-world.
Unlike Earth, the moon's quakes aren't produced by numerous, large tectonic plates that split apart, collide or slide past one another.
Pakistan is situated above two tectonic plates, the Eurasian and Indian plates, and their motion makes the country primarily a site of major strike-slip earthquakes.
Wellington sits where two of the Earth's great tectonic plates collide, and on top of one of its most active geological fault lines.
Fortunately for us, the tectonic plates in the area have since rearranged themselves, so a repeat event is impossible.
This energy also helped shape the tectonic plates that separate from the magma oceans.
The tectonic plates of history were certainly shifting, promoting a period of conflict between the West and the Arab Muslim world;
But along the Ridge, where tectonic plates are colliding, you have hydrothermal vents- just as at the bottom of Chao.
To date, the question of whether the young planet featured moving tectonic plates has been moot, primarily because almost nothing of its early crust remains.
Mexico sits atop five tectonic plates, making it particularly vulnerable to earthquakes.
The Earth has mobile tectonic plates which constantly change the appearance of the surface.
As the products of slowly moving tectonic plates, large earthquakes and active volcanoes are closely related phenomena that often occur near each other.
Italy straddles the Eurasian and African tectonic plates, making it vulnerable when they move.
Fortunately for us, the tectonic plates in the area have since rearranged themselves, so a repeat event is impossible.
As Earth's tectonic plates dive underneath each other, they drag three times the amount of water into the planet's interior as recently thought.