Sentences with phrase «major crustal»

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.

The tenement covers 83 square kilometres encompassing approximately 15 kilometres in strike length of the Jenkins Fault Zone, a major crustal feature that is considered to be a significant influence on the origins and emplacement of the DeGrussa mineralisation.