How To Use Crustal plate In A Sentence

• 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
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• The Pacific Ocean's crustal plate is sliding underneath the crustal plate Japan rests upon, he says, triggering the quakes. New quake disrupts power to cooling unit at nuclear plant
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• It's part of the very active "Ring of Fire, " a zone of major crustal plate clashes that surround the Pacific Ocean.
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• The later two stages of this model involve tectonic convergence of crustal plates which provides the compressional and tensional stresses that produce rock deformation, uplift, and faulting. Mountain
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