Sentences with phrase «of weak zones»

The billion - year time lag between the earliest, «proto - subduction» and the full onset of plate tectonics can be explained by the slow, painstaking development of weak zones within the plates, he proposes.

To better understand the development of these weak zones and how they lead to plate boundaries, Bercovici and geophysicist Yanick Ricard of the University of Lyon in France investigated what kind of damage happens to lithospheric rocks under intense deformation.

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The country has long enjoyed the economic zone's policies at the expense of its weaker neighbors, says Palvos Eleftheriadis, associate professor of law and fellow of Mansfield College at Oxford University.

The maintenance of loose monetary policy in the euro zone could be seen as either positive or negative for gold, depending on whether the metal responds positively to a persistently low opportunity cost of holding the non-yielding metal or more negatively to a weaker euro.

The European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi's concerns over the impact of a strong euro on a weak euro zone economy raise the prospect of monetary easing to dent the currency's appeal, an analyst told CNBC.

With its warnings of depleted bank reserves, weak governance, and political uncertainty, the IMF's account reads more like the analysis of a war - ravaged economic basket - case than the prospects for a developed economy in one of the richest economic zones in the world.

The question now is whether the E.C.B.'s action merely delayed the inevitable reckoning for the euro zone's weakest members or whether falling interest rates and improved growth will become entrenched, bringing the critical phase of the Continent's debt crisis to a close.

Euro zone industrials, and consumer cyclicals, sectors dominated by exporters, have been delivering weaker than expected first - quarter revenues, Reuters data shows, with some of the biggest negative earnings surprises.

Truthfully, even what is shaping up as a weak recovery of around 1.0 % GDP growth in 2014 would be a major improvement for the euro zone.

The potash zone intersected in DK -10-01 returned low potash values, KCl values are less than 5 % and it is interpreted that this hole also intersected a similar isolated zone of weak potash mineralization.

For weaker economies in the euro zone that are seeing subdued domestic demand as a result of austerity programs, there were also encouraging signs in the trade figures for August.

IOTA is testing the lower boundary of the key $ 0.45 - $ 0.48 support zone, as it remains relatively weak amid the Bitcoin break - out.

He just needs to dig his way out of the Jon Lester zone and become a typically weak - hitting catcher again.

He looked slow and weak, plus none of the other Seahawks receivers are good red zone threats, figures his td numbers would be inflated, so yes, if u pay him 8 or more a year your paying for a name, again no thank you

I was going to absolve Sheahan, as he was responsible for the weak side point and did his job there, but I went back a bit further to see why Stewart beat Tatar to the puck, and saw that we had full possession of the puck in the d - zone, Green passed the puck to LGD which he completely misses, and Sheahan grabbed the puck only to immediately turn it over.

A weak pop up to RF and two k's swinging at breaking balls well out of the zone and another on a called strike.

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One hint of weak coupling at a subduction zone is the presence of serpentinite — a mineral formed when seawater carried down by a descending plate reacts with mantle rock.

Regardless of when plate tectonics began, he adds, this grain - size - reduction mechanism could have been very important for causing weak zones in the lithosphere at all times in Earth's history.

Lithospheric weak zones with tiny grains have long been suspected to be important to facilitating plate tectonics — but this study explains for the first time how they form, and how «the lithosphere can «remember» these zones of weakness for a geologically long time,» says geophysicist Paul Tackley of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

Chester et al. (p. 1208) describe the structure and composition of the thin fault zone, which is predominately comprised of weak clay - rich sediments.

When terranes collide and accrete, they form a suture, also known as a collision zone, which is made up of weak, crushed rock.

On the hot young Earth, the outer layer was too weak and soft for plate tectonics to operate until the upper mantle cooled enough to allow sections of crust to slip under each other, or subduct, at collision zones some 3.2 to 2.5 billion years ago.

Together with prior evidence showing that some subduction zone faults are «weak,» this implies that all of the faults are «weak,» and that subduction zones are «low - stress» environments.

The plate failed to split completely, but geologists think that the event left scars below the NMSZ: a buried rift zone, where the rocks are weak and fractured, over plutons — blobs of dense igneous rock — that themselves rose from an upwelling of unusually dense lower crust.

In Japan, the Kuril Islands, and the Solomon Islands, great mega-thrust ruptures have ruptured portions of the subduction zones that were thought too warm or weak to experience earthquakes.

Beyond 0.8 AU is the dead zone, cooler than 1000 K and with turbulence orders of magnitude weaker.

In addition to 10 unconfirmed, weaker «signals,» the team was able to detect eight super-Earths around red dwarfs between 15 and 80 light - years away from our Sun, Sol, of which three orbit within the habitable zones of their host stars.

It's important to remember that your shoulders play a vitally important part of a bench - press, so it's good to use a power rack to concentrate only on the weak zones.

There isn't enough story here to sustain a full - length feature, and Shyamalan probably would have been better served making this the first short in an anthology film (indeed, it is rather reminiscent of a «Twilight Zone» episode, «Five Characters in Search of an Exit»), rather than stretch it out with weaker side stories and needless characters.

Many classic cars do not even come with seat belts and with a weak structure and lack of crumple zones are not really safe for driving.

In weaker rock, erosion along a weaker zone may not greatly outstrip that of the cliff face.

They play similarly to the Zone of the Enders games, where players control the Avatar in flight, attack the enemy's weak points with ranged attacks, and eventually close in to unleash even more powerful scythe attacks.

Oct. 24, 5:32 a.m. Updated The latest earthquake in Turkey — that country's strongest in a decade — provides a fresh reminder of the deep vulnerability created by weak building designs in the world's crowded seismic danger zones.

Noting that nearly a third of US residents live outside 100 - year flood zones (where flood insurance is currently optional), the CSM notes that «understanding and communicating risk remains a weak spot in America's preparedness.»

Because the high MHI cast a partial wind shadow in the easterly trade winds that blow almost year round, a narrow zone of weak winds develops on the lee sides of the islands.

Asad Rehman head of climate and energy at Friends of the Earth had this to say «A weak and dangerously ineffectual agreement is nothing but a polluters charter — it legitimises a do - nothing approach whilst creating a mirage that governments are acting in the interests of the planet and its people,» «Doha was a disaster zone where poor developing countries were forced to capitulate to the interests of wealthy countries, effectively condemning their own citizens to the climate crisis.

His finding was that there were weak zones in the side seams of the bags and concluded that there were intermittent bonding problems resulting in some sections of the seams being weak.