Sentences with phrase «chasma rift zone»

The African rift zone and mountain building in West Africa generated new habitats for the evolving frogs, Wake noted.
Here, a spiral pattern arises at an offset along the wax rifting zone, similar to small rotating «microplate
These spots lie along the edge of an area called Ganiki Chasma, a feature long suspected to be a volcanic rift zone.
The P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in Moscow proposes to study ocean rift zones, subduction zones, and the sites of nuclear and toxic waste dumps.
The spots were clustered in a large rift zone called Ganiki Chasma.
The plate failed to split completely, but geologists think that the event left scars below the NMSZ: a buried rift zone, where the rocks are weak and fractured, over plutons — blobs of dense igneous rock — that themselves rose from an upwelling of unusually dense lower crust.
But the high - density rocks below the NMSZ redirect that pressure downward, putting faults in the buried rift zone under significantly more pressure than the surrounding terrain.
Remote image released by U.S. Geological Survey, shows a new lava fissure on Kilauea Volcano's lower East Rift Zone on Makamae and Leilani Streets
Rising like a spine parallel to the Pacific Ocean, Bolinas Ridge offers bird's - eye views up and down the San Andreas Rift Zone.
The San Andreas Fault A rift zone containing many faults and lines of geologic activity, the San Andreas Fault slices straight through Olema Valley.
A three - night stay would give you a second full day, allowing more time to do additional hikes, see more of the Park, or, perhaps, Hilo town and the waterfalls along the Hāmākua Coast, or the Ka «ū District, with its black and green sand beaches and coffee farms, or lower Puna, the main town in which, Pāhala, mostly avoided being run over by lava flows from Kīlauea's East Rift Zone (ERZ) vent, Pu`u «Ō «ō, in 2014; currently, the ERZ flows are approachable from the unpaved emergency road, on rented bicycles, then, by hiking up the pali («steep hill» in Hawaiian).
UPDATE May 12, 2018 from the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory / USGS: Volcanic unrest in the lower East Rift Zone of K?lauea Volcano continues.
The permafrost is also experiencing geothermal heating from the rift zone below.

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The increasingly radical measures needed to tame the euro - zone debt crisis are leading to a growing rift within German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition.
«We don't currently know what changed in 2014 that allowed this rift to push through the suture zone and propagate into the main body of the ice shelf,» said Dan McGrath, a glaciologist at Colorado State University who has been studying the Larsen C ice shelf since 2008.
Suture zones are complex and more heterogeneous than the rest of the ice shelf, containing ice with different properties and mechanical strengths, and therefore play an important role in controlling the rate at which rifts grow.
Dan McGrath, a glaciologist at Colorado State University, was less certain, saying the rift still had to progress through a zone of ice that may cause it to slow down again.
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However, in East Africa most of this seismicity is spread over a wide zone across the rift valley and is of relatively small magnitude.
They mapped the ice front, grounding zone, longitudinal surface structures (flow stripes), pressure ridges, crevasses, fractures and rifts, surface meltwater, ice dolines, ice rises and ice rumples.
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After a pitched battle that exposed a deep rift in management philosophy, the Los Angeles school board took a budget ax to the district's regional administrative zones last week.
This lava field is the largest of several large beds of lava that erupted from the 53 - mile (85 km) south - east to north - west trending Great Rift volcanic zone, [9] a line of weakness in the Earth's crust.
En Masse took players on a tour of their game Rift this week though a pair of zone fly through videos.
We also have an art gallery with some amazing pieces of concept art printed up on large canvases, an area featuring some awesome pinball machines, a board games zone and an Oculus Rift stand.
Today, Aspyr Media released the first trailer alongside a story outline for Torn which is a dark, science - fiction mystery built specifically for VR inspired by The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror, coming to PlayStation VR, HTC Vive and Oculus Rift this Spring...
Sidsel Meineche Hansen, SECOND SEX WAR ZONE, installation: DICKGIRL 3D (X) in VR format, gaming PC, Oculus Rift headset, headphones and a beanbag in vegan leather, 2016.
whoah, I didn't know that the rift system under Antarctica is like the one in east Africa, a spreading zone.
These rifts are zones of weakness as has been noted on Wilkins and Larsen Ice Shelf.
Spreading rifts and subduction zones usually arise at the deepest ocean parts, almost by definition.
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