Sentences with phrase «subduction zones like»
«Measuring the strength of olivine is critical to understanding how strong tectonic plates are, which, in turn, matters to how plates break and create subduction zones like those along the Cascadia plate, which runs down the west coast of Canada to the west coast of the United States,» said Warren, a geologist in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/ Not exact matches
Scientists have discovered that the last subduction zone earthquake to hit the Pacific Northwest was in January 1700, when — like now — soils probably would have been soggy from winter rains and most vulnerable to landslides.
«We are interested in large - scale geophysical processes, like how plate tectonics initiates and how plates move underneath one another in subduction zones,» said David Goldsby, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Given Dot Earth's long focus on the risk to schools in Oregon from the Cascadia Subduction Zone and other earthquake faults, I thought you would like to know we are making progress.
The human fossil fuel CO2 emissions spike is more like an asteroid impact than the slow degassing of CO2 from metamorphic decarbonization of carbonate rocks at subduction zones by the slow grinding away of plate tectonics.