Sentences with phrase «rift system»
A "rift system" refers to a network of cracks or fractures in the Earth's crust. It is a geological term used to describe areas where the crust is splitting apart due to tectonic forces. Full definition
Wateren, F. M. van der, Luyendyk, B. P., Verbers, A. L. L. M., & Smith, C. H., Landscape evolution model of the West Antarctic Rift system relating tectonic and climatic evolutions of the rift margins.
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The unusual geology and climate of the East African Rift System introduced selective environmental pulses, which not only drove speciation but also subsequent dispersal events.
Lucky's Tale comes packaged for free with the Oculus Rift, I knew it would be a hard bargain for people since its normally treated as a demo and some people won't view it as a game that makes the Oculus Rift a system seller.
Antarctica is home to a geological rift system where new crust is being formed, meaning the eastern and western halves of the continent are slowly separating.
Because the West Antarctic Rift is hidden, less is known about it than about other famous rift systems such as the East African Rift or, in the United States, the Rio Grande Rift.
West Antarctica was stretched and thinned as it moved away from East Antarctica, forming one of the world's largest continental rift systems.
At Oculus» pop - up showroom in New York City, I was first given a quick tour of the capabilities of their high - end Rift system.
Geophysicist and fellow author Dr Fausto Ferraccioli, from the British Antarctic Survey, says up the Ferrigno Rift is part of a massive rift system that is little understood.
Schematic showing that proposed rifting processes within the East Antarctic Rift System provided the tectonic trigger for uplift of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains; Credit: British Antarctic Survey
Joughin, I. & MacAyeal, D. R,» Calving of large tabular icebergs from ice shelf rift systems», Geophysical Research Letters, 32, 2005.
He's part of a team that has been examining the Rukwa Rift Basin of Tanzania over the last decade to understand environmental change through time in the East African Rift System.
Lloyd helped deploy research seismometers across the West Antarctic Rift System and Marie Byrd Land in the austral summer of 2009 - 10.
They told me they were using modified Oculus Rift systems, with the additional hardware in backpacks to keep things wireless.
Regarding Antarctica, virtually all of the sensationalized melting we hear about occurs in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), which lies directly above a 5,000 - mile - long fault / rift system where deep earth geothermal heat — not global warming — produces melting from below.
Map of the Northern Tanzanian Divergence Zone depicts the East African Rift System (EARS), containing Lake Natron (north), diverging around the Ngorongoro Volcanic Highland massif and splitting into two separate rift valleys (Lake Eyasi on west) and Lake Manyara (on east).
The rift system is thought to have a major influence on ice streams in West Antarctica.
The Bentley Subglacial Trench is part of the West Antarctic Rift System and hot rock beneath the region indicates that this part of the rift system was active quite recently.
«If it's still hot there, it might also be hot under other basins in the rift system.»
The basin is part of the West Antarctic Rift System, a series of rifts, adjacent to the Transantarctic Mountains, along which the continent was stretched and thinned.
Nyblade, A., Lloyd, A., Wiens, D., Anandakrishnan, S., Aster, R., Huerta, A., Wilson, T., Shore, P., Zhao, D., Upper mantle structure beneath the Whitmore Mountains, West Antarctic Rift System, and Marie Byrd Land from body wave tomography, Eos Trans.
Lloyd, A., Wiens, D., Shore, P., Nyblade, A., Anandakrishnan, S., Aster, R., Huerta, A., Wilson, T., Zhao, D., West Antarctica Ice Sheet Upper Mantle Structure Beneath the Whitmore Mountains, West Antarctic Rift System, and Marie Byrd Land from Body Wave Tomography, Eighteenth annual WAIS workshop, Loveland, CO, 21 - 23 September, 2011.
«Upper mantle seismic anisotropy beneath the West Antarctic Rift System and surrounding region from shear wave splitting analysis.»
We propose that the collated record of ephemeral East African Rift System (EARS) lakes could be a proxy for the regional paleoclimate conditions experienced by early hominins.
The East African Rift system is an example of where this is currently happening.
The East African Rift System (EARS), one of the most extensive geological features on the Earth's surface, runs north - south for around 4500 km from Syria through East Africa to Mozambique [16]--[17].
Sublacustrine hydrothermal vents with associated massive sulfides were discovered during April 1987 at Pemba and Cape Banza on the Zaire side of the northern basin of Lake Tanganyika, East African Rift system.
The rift system was also found to contain the largest subglacial lakes in Antarctica.»
By examining the data, researchers discovered how, during the last billion years, a crustal root was formed underneath the mountains and the rift system in the East Antarctic.
«It was fascinating to find that the East Antarctic rift system resembles one of the geological wonders of the world - the East African rift system - and that it provides the missing piece of the puzzle that helps explain the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains.