Sentences with word «magmatism»

Contributed to the understanding of the thermodynamic and structural origins of magmatism in the Mediterranean region.
Temporal, geomagnetic and related attributes of kimberlite magmatism at Ekati, Northwest Territories, Canada
tectonic significance of Carboniferous magmatism in the southwest Trabzon.
These rocks contain a change from wet to dry arc magmatism associated with the onset of collision between the Panama block and South America.
The variety of landforms associated with the silicic spectral character suggests that both extrusive and intrusive silicic magmatism occurred on the Moon.
By reexamining the timing and connection between magmatism [the movement of magma], climate change and extinction, we've created a model that explains what triggered the end - Permian mass extinction.»
In addition, the onset of hot, dry magmatism led to formation of explosive maar volcanic structures.»
As Earth descends into an 80 - year, sun - spotless Dalton or Maunder Minimum reinforced by a confluence of deep - ocean magmatism with long - term cyclical reversals, climate - change alarmists will have much to answer for.
«It is critical to get the timescales of magmatism correct, so we can understand how long it might take for reservoirs of magma to build up and erupt.»
This is just one of 12 giant eruptions reported from the area by the Leicester team, who show that intense hotspot magmatism caused major crustal subsidence, forming the 100 km - wide Snake River Basin.
«Finding mainly molten rock beneath the Valley's floor would suggest magmatism is the dominant process in the transition.»
The study, Lifetime and size of shallow magma bodies controlled by crustal - scale magmatism, was led by researchers at ETH Zurich, and also included researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
The author also argues that the eruption of the Panjal Traps LIP during the Early Permian was not linked to the mid-Capitanian mass extinction or to post-Neotethys magmatism.
Mortimer et al. (2017b) discuss new Ar / Ar and limited U — Pb ages and geochemistry (both trace element and Nd isotopic analyses) of widespread volcanism on the northern part of the Zealandia continent by using dredged samples obtained in different cruises and integrated with their earlier findings on the southern Zealandia in an attempt to give a more updated picture of magmatism across the whole Zealandia continent.
The new findings allow scientists for the first time to directly pinpoint undersea magmatism — the formation of rock from cooling magma — in the dino - era carnage.
Dr Farris notes: «This study examines the relationship between arc magmatism and tectonic change in a sequence of volcanic rocks along the Panama Canal.
Temporal, geomagnetic and related attributes of kimberlite magmatism at Ekati, Northwest Territories, Canada This paper reviews key characteristics of kimberlites on the Ekati property, NWT, Canada.
Instead, there was a subinterval of magmatism — a shorter, particular part of the LIP — that triggered a cascade of events causing mass extinction.»
Together with several Chilean and German universities, German, French, Chilean and American non-university research institutions operate a decentralized instrumentation system located at Chile's convergent plate boundary to gather data on earthquakes, deformations, magmatism, and surface processes.
In every case, the team were able to link the age and composition of material in the inclusions to distinct tectonic events occurring locally in the Earth's crust, such as a collision between plates, continental rifting or magmatism.
Udry researches Martian meteorites to understand the magmatism on Mars and how the Martian crust and mantle evolved.
Field observations in these basins testify as to how the magmatism invaded and heated organic - rich sediments, including former oil fields.
Known uncertainties include (1) the content of the primary carbon in the magmas and country rocks; (2) the duration and intensity of magmatism; and (3) the fraction of carbon that is released to the surface (from either the ascending magma or the heated country rocks).
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