Sentences with phrase «as the crust stretches»

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The key here is to get the crust as thin as possible when stretching it out.

Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching of the Earth's crust and where the crust grows thin (called «non-hotspot intraplate volcanism»), such as in the African Rift Valley or the European Rhine Graben with its Eifel volcanoes).

So Olive and his team devised a new explanation: At fast - spreading ridges with abundant magma eruptions, the cooling, stretching crust forms new faults in rapid succession as it continues to spread.