Sentences with phrase «up along the fault»

They then put the two pieces together under pressure, simulating the static friction that builds up along a fault line.

Not exact matches

I probably messed up somewhere along the line and I «m sure it was my own fault.

Oh no, he decided to drive his burning Ferrari right down the pit lane, unbuckling his belts and standing up as he coasted along to the Ferrari pits, as if to make a point over whose fault it was that he hadn't won the championship.

But if there are thousands of people with nowhere to go then it isn't their fault if they end up parking along verges and across parks.

Along this fault, the Indian subcontinent is being forced down underneath Asia, and the collision is the force pushing up the tallest mountain range in the world.

On the other hand, if the two plates were stuck together by friction, strain would build up in the rocks and the upper plate would bend down along the outer edge and thicken inland, humping upward until the rocks along the fault failed.

Friction along the fault locks the plates together until enough strain builds up to cause the plates to slip, unleashing an earthquake.

They found that the fault slipped by up to 19 metres along a segment north of the epicentre, close to the city of Constitución.

The group took data along the fault from about 100 GPS locations, including stations where data are collected continuously and sites where instruments are episodically set up over small markers on the ground, the positions of which can be recorded over time as the Earth slowly shifts.

The study tests the method on more than 200 GPS stations that recorded slow slips between 2005 and 2016 along the Cascadia fault zone, which runs from northern California up to northern Vancouver Island.

The large scarps were formed as Mercury's interior cooled, causing the planet to contract and the crust to break and thrust upward along faults making cliffs up to hundreds of miles long and some more than a mile (over one - and - a-half kilometers) high.

Along with a group of half - brained criminals led by Steve Chambers (Owen Wilson) and an absurdly faulted heist plan, David manages the impossible and makes off with $ 17 million in cash... only problem is he foolishly hands the money over to this wild group of double crossers and has been set up to take the fall.

Along with a group of half - brained criminals led by Steve (Owen Wilson) and an absurdly faulted heist plan, David manages the impossible and makes off with $ 17 million in cash, only problem is he foolishly hands the money over to this wild group of double crossers and has been set up to take the fall.

That's not necessarily his fault; dramatic actors do not necessarily make it up as they go along, and had he been given half a character, Rickman could probably have played him.

Larsen C (like Larsen A and B, which preceded it) has broken up in a far more breathtaking fashion — cleaving along dramatic fault lines which scientists link to climate change.