Sentences with phrase «weak zones»

Areas with weaker zoning laws tend to have more affordable housing as compared to more restrictive places.

There, strong currents create weak zones in the rocks.

Each enemy has a different weak zone, and attacking an enemy's weakness deals more damage.

His finding was that there were weak zones in the side seams of the bags and concluded that there were intermittent bonding problems resulting in some sections of the seams being weak.

The billion - year time lag between the earliest, «proto - subduction» and the full onset of plate tectonics can be explained by the slow, painstaking development of weak zones within the plates, he proposes.

Regardless of when plate tectonics began, he adds, this grain - size - reduction mechanism could have been very important for causing weak zones in the lithosphere at all times in Earth's history.

Lithospheric weak zones with tiny grains have long been suspected to be important to facilitating plate tectonics — but this study explains for the first time how they form, and how «the lithosphere can «remember» these zones of weakness for a geologically long time,» says geophysicist Paul Tackley of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

So, rather than a uniform layer that grew weak zones over time, the lithosphere «was always heterogeneous, with weaker and stronger parts.»

As a tectonic plate (red) moves and rotates, it «inherits» previously formed weak zones (in blue) that then continue to grow to ultimately form a plate boundary.

Once weak zones became established plate boundaries, a plate could move and rotate, something like the present - day Pacific plate.

By the end of his third term, Mayor Bloomberg hopes to double the charters» numbers and more than triple their population, to 100,000, a lever that could terminate weak zoned elementary schools and cost the UFT millions in lost dues.

Crucial support levels are still just below the current price between $ 250 and $ 260, at $ 125 and $ 100, with a weaker zone at near the $ 170 level.

To better understand the development of these weak zones and how they lead to plate boundaries, Bercovici and geophysicist Yanick Ricard of the University of Lyon in France investigated what kind of damage happens to lithospheric rocks under intense deformation.

It's important to remember that your shoulders play a vitally important part of a bench - press, so it's good to use a power rack to concentrate only on the weak zones.

In order to form a sea cave, the host rock must first contain a weak zone.

In weaker rock, erosion along a weaker zone may not greatly outstrip that of the cliff face.