Sentences with phrase «like subduction»
Though a previous geological study by Louise Prockter and Simon Kattenhorn made the case that something like subduction could be happening on Europa, it wasn't clear exactly how that process would work on an icy world..
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Previous studies had hinted that something like subduction may have been happening on Jupiter's moon, Europa.
Not exact matches
«Measuring the strength of olivine is critical to understanding how strong tectonic plates are, which, in turn, matters to how plates break and create subduction zones like those along the Cascadia plate, which runs down the west coast of Canada to the west coast of the United States,» said Warren, a geologist in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment.
As strain builds during this subduction process, the ridge compresses like a spring.
Scientists have discovered that the last subduction zone earthquake to hit the Pacific Northwest was in January 1700, when — like now — soils probably would have been soggy from winter rains and most vulnerable to landslides.
«The reason you don't get anything like the Himalayas or subduction,» says Greenberg, «is because there's just not much solid stuff there.»
It shows that when one continent bears thick or buoyant crust that blocks subduction, the other continent gets squeezed like a tube of toothpaste and folds around the blockage, creating a complex array of geophysical features (see video).
«We are interested in large - scale geophysical processes, like how plate tectonics initiates and how plates move underneath one another in subduction zones,» said David Goldsby, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
The first study suggests Europa's surface, like Earth's, undergoes a process of subduction, wherein one tectonic plate moves under the surface of another and sinks due to gravity.
Oh there were some times after: The African rift valley whose radiant heat spawned your kind and the subduction volcanoes around continental rims that gave saber tooth and mammoth like megafauna the edge.
Given Dot Earth's long focus on the risk to schools in Oregon from the Cascadia Subduction Zone and other earthquake faults, I thought you would like to know we are making progress.
The human fossil fuel CO2 emissions spike is more like an asteroid impact than the slow degassing of CO2 from metamorphic decarbonization of carbonate rocks at subduction zones by the slow grinding away of plate tectonics.