Sentences with phrase «eurasian tectonic»
It was last seen near the ocean bordering the Eurasian tectonic plate, vanishing in its midst as if a mirage.
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Þingvellir is famous for its scuba diving activities which you can partake and check out yourself the only place in the world where you can witness the separation between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates.
After the MSC was discovered in the 1970s, the early theory was that movements of the African, Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates had led to the Mediterranean becoming landlocked.
The Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates collide offshore of Pakistan, forming a subduction zone, but today's earthquake was onshore and mostly strike - slip — each side of the fault moved horizontally.
ANOTHER huge earthquake rocked Nepal this week, but it has released only some of the energy stored up along the boundary between the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates.
Set just north of Thingvallavatn, Iceland's largest lake, the park lies in a rift valley formed where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates meet.
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The Tohoku - Oki earthquake occurred in a «subduction zone,» a boundary between two tectonic plates where one plate is diving beneath another — in this case, the Pacific plate dives beneath the Eurasian plate just east of Japan.
It marks the boundary between the Eurasian and Anatolian tectonic plates, which move relative to each other at a speed of around 2 cm per year.
Named after Dudley Foster, pilot of the US Navy submersible Alvin, who collected the first specimen, this tiny jelly is common near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, an ocean - floor dividing line that separates the North American tectonic plate from the Eurasian, running south from Iceland down to the Azores.
In my hunt for the Northern Lights, my first stop was Iceland; a fascinating country with many beautiful natural sights such as the cascading Gullfoss Waterfalls, the rift between the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates, the spurting Great Geysir, Humpback, Minke and Blue whales in the bay of Reykjavik, and geothermal pools and spas such as the Blue Lagoon.