Sentences with phrase «mountain belts»
... To us scientists, the real significance of this work is that it helps us understand the evolution of our planet, how faults and mountain belts form, and why earthquakes happen.
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«The impact of large earthquakes in mountain belts is devastating,» commented Luca Dal Zilio, lead author of the study from Geophysical Fluid Dynamics — ETH Zürich.
The tectonic interactions associated with the formation and breakup of such supercontinents provide a new way to view the origin of mountain belts
All the other major mountain belts on Earth, such as the Himalaya and the Alps, were formed due to colliding continents.
The lesson we learned about multiple events forming the Gamburtsevs may inform studies of the history of other mountain belts.
«These aspects made the Andes the longest and second - highest mountain belt in the world.»
The finding about continents jibes with evidence from igneous rocks — those sourced in hot, molten rock — which indicated that the surface became rigid enough to support mountain belts, which would have eroded, during this period.
After Saturday's devastating earthquake in Nepal — and facing scenes that are depressingly reminiscent of equally destructive earthquakes across the Alpine - Himalayan mountain belt in the last decade or so, in Iran, Pakistan and China — it is natural to wonder how we might improve resilience to these terrible events.
Containing several of the world's major mountain belts, the pear - shaped country comes to life in sweeping landscapes, often completely reimagining what it means to capture scale.
Molnar, P (2007), An examination of evidence used to infer late cenozoic «Uplift» of mountain belts and other high terrain: What scientific question does such evidence pose?.
It's a new idea where plate shortening initially squeezed and folded a mountain belt, triggering the thickening and dripping of the deep lithosphere, and then increasing the elevation of most of central Turkey.
Most of the world's mountain belts are the result of two continents colliding (e.g. the Himalayas) or volcanism.
By looking at the petrogenic carbon lost from the rocks to the soil, the team estimates that the mountain belt releases roughly 6.1 to 18.6 tons of carbon per square kilometer each year through this mechanism — double or more the amount of carbon estimated to be sucked out of the atmosphere by traditional weathering.
«Answering such questions is important because geologic features such as ocean basins, mountains belts, earthquakes and volcanoes ultimately result from Earth's interior dynamics,» Conrad described.
«I was just blown away that there were people who were studying subduction zones and mountain belts and all of these things that I had been interested in but I didn't know that I was interested in,» he says.
For over two weeks in August, 23 students and faculty travelled about 3000 km and covered the amazing sedimentary record preserved between the mountains belts between Germany, Switzerland and Italy.