Sentences with phrase «in shear zones»

Large flake graphite showings located on the property were confirmed with flake size in the range of 0.5 to 2 millimeters, typically present in shear zones at the contact of gneisses and marbles where the graphite content usually ranges from 2 % to 20 %.

Not exact matches

But internal features of the slide, exposed in outcrops, yielded evidence such as jigsaw puzzle rock fractures and shear zones, along with the pseudotachylytes.

The team found that swimming bacteria cluster in the «high shear zones» in a flow — the regions where the speed of the fluid changes most abruptly.

If a researcher extracts a one - inch sample of rock from the fault zone located inside a single plate and subjects it to compression and shearing forces in a laboratory until it slips, it will behave in much the same way that rocks in the ground do.

The region in color denotes a shear zone where the continent of Gondwana slid atop proto - North America 300 million years ago.

I understand the Atlantic hurricanes are born if a) sea surface temp exceeds 27 deg in a rather thick layer; b) there is little wind shear and c) there is a suitable seminal thunderstorm cluster moving westward in the Intertropical Convection Zone (ITCZ) over the equatorial Atlantic.