Sentences with phrase «cause tectonic»

The Bank of England has unveiled analysis of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin that suggests electronic money could cause a tectonic shift in the payments industry.

In places like California, where quakes are set off by well - understood forces that cause tectonic plates to grind past each other, seismologists can invoke centuries of earthquake statistics.

Chinese policy shifts may cause tectonic effects, but one virtue of their system is their big plans don't switch with each election cycle.

Researchers also still don't fully understand the forces that cause earthquakes, most notably what causes tectonic plates to move.

Not exact matches

When the tectonic plates slipped in the Indian Ocean in 2004 and the resulting tsunami killed a quarter million people, was that caused by man's innate fallen nature?

People believed earthquakes were caused by angry gods, not shifting tectonic plates in the Earth's surface.

That would mean, amongst other things, that there were no ice caps or salt water, that plate tectonics were incredibly rapid in the recent past and this didn't cause the Earth's surface to shatter etc..

When this so called god intelligently designed the Earth did he design the plate tectonics with the full understanding they would cause major earthquakes that would result in the indiscriminate deaths of millions of his beloved creations?

Plate tectonics cause earthquakes.

The people obviously became upset at the power God gave these two men and were punished by having their entire families killed or swallowed up whole by tectonic plate shifts that caused the ground to open up like on the movies.

BIBLE says that earthquakes, hurricances, floods, plagues, locusts, etc. are caused by God as punishment for sins SCIENCE explains that earthquakes are due to tectonic plate movements, hurricanes caused by ocean heat and coriolis effect, floods normal effect of weather fluctations, etc..

Earthquakes are caused by the tectonic plate movement.

When plate tectonics was not posited by science, it was your god who caused earthquakes and we didn't know why.

«In a few weeks or a month we may have a better idea of what might have caused this earthquake sequence — natural tectonic processes or industrial activities,» McGarr adds.

«It gives us some insight into the connection between the slow circulation of near - solid rock in Earth's mantle caused by convection currents carrying heat upwards from the planet's interior, and observed active plate tectonics at the surface.

These can reduce the pressure on tectonic plates, causing them to slip past each other, inducing tremors.

The research also adds insight into middle crust strain transients, temporary stress on surrounding rock that's caused by tectonic motion.

The team's results showed that the Gutenberg discontinuity does not define the bottom of the plate, but instead is caused by the presence of olivine - melt mixtures within tectonic plates.

Here in the underground there is a constant build - up of energy which results from an interlocking of the tectonic plates causing plate movement to come to a halt until a great tremor releases this energy.

This conveyor - belt motion causes the crust's tectonic plates at the surface to jostle against each other, a process that has continued for at least half of Earth's 4.5 billion - year history.

Regardless of when plate tectonics began, he adds, this grain - size - reduction mechanism could have been very important for causing weak zones in the lithosphere at all times in Earth's history.

Schutt and the research team will continue to explore the causes of variations in tectonic plate strength as part of an ongoing project between Colorado State University, Utah State University, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.

What caused such a long period of tectonic stability?

Exactly what caused the composition of the crust to change during the first oxygenation event remains a mystery, but Lee said the team believes it may have been related to the onset of plate tectonics, where Earth's surface, for the first time, became mobile enough to sink back down into Earth's deep interior.

The idea is that series of severe earthquakes within a geologically short period of time cause the rising of the land where one tectonic plate slips beneath another slab of Earth's crust in a process called subduction.

His latest research shows that oceanic tectonic plates deform due to cooling, causing shortening of the plates and mid-plate seismicity.

In tectonic aneurysm, a river cuts down through the earth's crust so fast that it causes the crust to heat up, making a nearby mountain range weaker and facilitating uplift.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — A great offshore earthquake, like the one that killed hundreds of thousands when it struck off Indonesia's Sumatra coast in December 2004, would seem to offer a small measure of solace to survivors: The offshore tectonic fault that caused the temblor should require many centuries to recharge.

Until now, it was thought that the cracks were the result of geodynamical processes, such as plate tectonics, but the models run by Alice Quillen and her collaborators suggest that a close encounter with another body might have been the cause.

Natural ones include intraplate stress changes related to plate tectonics and natural water table or lake level variations caused by changing weather patterns or water drainage patterns over time, or advance or retreat of glaciers.

Although the new analysis adds to evidence suggesting a massive tectonic shift caused the seas to rise more than half a billion years ago, Dalziel said more research is needed to determine whether this new chain of paleogeographic events can truly explain the sudden rise of multicellular life in the fossil record.

It is well - established in climatology that different causes and mechanisms have caused climate changes in the past (orbital variations, plate tectonics, solar variability, volcanic eruptions, etc.), so that a cause - effect relationship has to be determined for each individual case, rather than looking for one overall «driver».

If that planet had, say, plate tectonics, the combined effects could cause a supercontinent to migrate to a place that always faces towards or away from the star.

Focus of Study I am a geophysicist interested in the dynamics of tectonic processes that cause earthquakes and build mountains and the geodynamics of solid earth - ice sheet interactions.

These tunnels are shielded from external vibrations caused by wind, traffic, tectonic activity and other terrestrial interference.

A tsunami caused by an earthquake along a subduction zone happens when the leading edge of the overriding tectonic plate breaks free and springs seaward, displacing the sea floor and the water above it.

If the rockfall was caused by seismic activity, such as a marsquake, it could support views that Martian tectonics and volcanism are still active at the planet, Mustard added.

Indonesia sits on the Pacific «Ring of Fire» where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent seismic and volcanic activity.

As landmasses go, Barbados is relatively young, at just under a million years old, and was created when two tectonic plates collided, causing a volcano to erupt and pushing up an ancient coral reef that dried out and started vegetating, eventually becoming the island it is today.

Golden Gear Games recently caused some tremors in the strategy genre with their release of Fate Tectonics.

«Rifts,» is an exhibition of recent drawings by Richard Serra.The Rifts get their name from the distinctive white shapes — elongated triangles — that punctuate their otherwise unrelenting tarmac blackness, and perhaps from the geological term for a rent in the earth's surface caused by moving tectonic plates.

Now the hunt is for the true natural variability driver, apparently the cause of the global temperatures plateau, the Earth's tectonics could be a prime candidate http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/APS.htm

We would not store in such regions of high hydrothermal and tectonic activity (having said that - some populations in Italy have CO2 seeping into their houses and gardens, but live with it, and buildings are constructed appropriately to prevent buildup of CO2 indoors; and in Africa even Lake Nyos has now been made safe by the construction of a gas lift siphon to prevent limnic buildup of CO2 in the lake bottom waters (the natural overturning of which caused the «burp» and subsequent deaths - although there were special, unique to that location, meteo.

Bobzorunkle says: «In the past, various theories were put forward on the causes of earthquakes: the Gods are angry; herd of elephants; meteors striking the earth; volcano activity; plate tectonics; elastic rebound theory; etc., etc..

Previous events have been tied to many causes — solar variation, Milankovitch, plate tectonics and, yes, greenhouse gases.

The article suggests that someone's Subaru in Tazmania is the cause and clprit to the build up of the «evil carbon emperor», and fails to include that the great majority of carbon produced on this earth lay beneath it, and leaches out through the tectonic plates, in many cases being trapped by — you guessed it — the oceans!

So what did you base your contention @ 223 on that:»... geological studies clearly show that the tectonic plates between the eastern and western antarctic ice sheets have been moving (away from each other causing volcanic emission) at an increasing rate.»

What I want is TESTABLE evidence that plate tectonics cause earthquakes along the Pacific Rim.

Choice 5: Does the fact that life on this planet has survived a billion years of climate change caused by orbital mechanics, asteroids, the evolution of photosynthesis, plate tectonics, the variable star we call the sun, chaos, plagues, and possibly supernovae.

Also after reading it the paper tends to focus on plate tectonic theory and how it can cause a cooling effect, I cant see from the paper any point about up / down lift of the ocean floor causing a change in sea level?