Sentences with phrase «more massive slab»

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Now, researchers have come up with a way to more quickly gauge a big quake's magnitude and thus provide faster, more accurate tsunami warnings: by measuring the miniscule changes in Earth's gravitational field that are generated when massive slabs of the planet's crust shift by dozens of meters over the course of a few minutes.

UCI glaciologists have created new maps of this part of Greenland using data from NASA missions and learned why some of the massive, moving ice slabs are more vulnerable to melting than others.

The plume below pulsed through the slab, leading to massive outpourings of magma, the pattern and timing of which appear consistent with the Steens — Columbia River flood basalts, which spewed out one million times more molten rock than the 1980 Mount Saint Helens eruption.

The 9.7 - inch slab features a 2048 × 1536 pixel Super AMOLED display, a Snapdragon 820 quad - core processor, 4 GB RAM paired with 32 GB of onboard storage, a massive quick - charging 6,000 mAh battery, and a microSD slot for adding up 256 GB more space.