Sentences with phrase «subduction happening»

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This happens when one tectonic plate is pushed down underneath another — a process called subduction.

To get such a high mountain chain in a subduction zone setting is unusual which adds to the importance of trying to figure out when and how it happened.

This subduction has created a collision zone with the potential to generate huge earthquakes and accompanying tsunamis, which happen when faulted rock abruptly shoves the ocean out of its way.

But without high - resolution images from more areas, researchers can not tell whether subduction might also be happening in other locations.

«So rather than temperature, we show that differences in the salt content of the ice could enable subduction to happen on Europa.»

What we show is that under reasonable assumptions for conditions on Europa, subduction could be happening there as well, which is really exciting.»

But the model developed by Johnson and his colleagues showed a way that subduction could happen on Europa, regardless of temperature differences.

Previous studies had hinted that something like subduction may have been happening on Jupiter's moon, Europa.

«This might happen in other subduction zones in other parts of the world.»

Though a previous geological study by Louise Prockter and Simon Kattenhorn made the case that something like subduction could be happening on Europa, it wasn't clear exactly how that process would work on an icy world..

A similar event happens in a subduction zone on Earth.

A tsunami caused by an earthquake along a subduction zone happens when the leading edge of the overriding tectonic plate breaks free and springs seaward, displacing the sea floor and the water above it.

Some of the ceramic pieces call to mind the geological phenomenon of subduction, or what happens when the collision between two solid masses drives one of the masses downward.

Just look at this: BTW it didn't happend in the medieval optimum or in the Maunder Minimum, it's happening now in the «Jose Minimum»: Chilean Earthquake Moved Entire City 10 Feet West, Shifted Other Parts of South America http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100308132043.htm This is against the expected «subduction» direction predicted by «models» of the Nazca plate under SA

That never happens (except locally and temporarily or via circulatory subduction) in open air.