Sentences with word «graben»

This was the Wilkes Subglacial Basin (fig. 2)- or rather basins - for it contains two deep (~ 2 km) trough - like structures known as grabens: recent subglacial topographic data compilations demonstrate that these troughs are directly connected to the Southern Ocean below sea level.

Perama Hill is a high sulfidation epithermal gold deposit hosted within sandstone, conglomerate and andesite of the Petrota graben in NE Greece.

These successive ruptures on the normal fault indicate the potential for strong ground movements in the Basel region and should be taken into account to refine the seismic hazard estimates along the Rhine graben.

The lower center of the scene shows the entire Valles Marineris canyon system, more than 3,000 kilometers (1,860 miles) long and up to 8 kilometers (5 miles) deep, extending from Noctis Labyrinthus, the arcuate system of graben to the west, to the chaotic terrain to the east.

Seismic reflection profiling of a sediment - filled graben beneath ice stream B, West Antarctica.

According to SDSU professor emeritus Monte Marshall, San Diego Bay is «the surface expression of a north - south - trending, nested graben».

Continuous subsidence in the Thingvellir rift graben, Iceland: Geodetic observations since 1967 compared to rheological models of plate spreading, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (2016).

Trapped beneath the ice, the graben (which is German for ditch or trench) is a stunning, deep gorge.

This valentine from Mars is actually a pit formed by collapse within a straight - walled trough known in geological terms as a graben.

The graben, pit, and lava flow are located on the east flank of the Alba Patera volcano in northern Tharsis.

The image was targeted by the MOC team in order to examine the relationship between a lava flow and the graben and pits that disrupted and cut across the flow.