Sentences with phrase «tectonic aneurysm»
«But now we have discovered that the river was able to cut into the plateau way before the uplift happened,» Avouac says, «and this shows that the tectonic aneurysm model was actually not at work here.
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In tectonic aneurysm, a river cuts down through the earth's crust so fast that it causes the crust to heat up, making a nearby mountain range weaker and facilitating uplift.
The team's new hypothesis also rules out a model that has been around for about 15 years, called tectonic aneurysm, which suggests that the rapid uplift seen at the Namche Barwa massif was triggered by intense river incision.