crustal

How To Use crustal In A Sentence

• Located on a narrow peninsula, Yehliu features special terrain and geologic landscape from wave erosion , rock weathering, and crustal movement.
• Japan's largest earthquake on record may have knocked the planet 3.9 inches off its axis as one crustal plate slid beneath another, Eric Fielding, a principal scientist with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., told Bloomberg news agency. Report: High chance of magnitude-7 or higher quake in Japan in coming days
• The idea that mountain folds, and the lesser rugosities of the Earth's surface, arose in a wrinkling of the crust under the influence of cooling and skrinkage of the subcrustal materials, is held by many eminent geologists, but not without dissent from others. The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays
• Although there are no data showing the connection between the two magmatic systems at shallow crustal levels during the eruption, the petrochemical data point to a common parent magma derived from a unique deep source.
• During Early Cretaceous times, there was a significant period of plutonism and crustal growth in the magmatic arc.
• Such abrupt changes of sedimentary environment were caused by coseismic crustal movements," Kim and his team wrote in their study. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
• When corrections are made to take account of these differences in crustal density the magnitude of gravity anomalies is significantly reduced.
• Such rocks are important in defining ages for crustal rocks underlying the peridotite.
• The study authors propose another, more radical, explanation: The crustal rock they analyzed, called ferroan anorthosite, is not linked to magma dynamics at all.
• Wattset al. 1982 have shown that lateral heat flow results in anomalies in the normal thermal subsidence profile following crustal stretching.