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crustal plate::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | plate |
| Type of | crust, earth's crust |
Examples of crustal plate
crustal plate
The computer simulation they developed reveals exactly what happens when an oceanic crustal plate subducts below a neighbouring plate.
From the sciencedaily.com
The crustal plate in this area moves very slowly, so the position of the plume cannot have moved by more than 1,000 kilometers in 45 million years.
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While the crustal plate moves southwest, the warm, underlying mantle slowly boils due to convection, with warm areas moving upward and cooler areas downward.
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The plume angles upward to the east-southeast until it reaches the colder rock of the North American crustal plate, and flattens out like a 300-mile-wide pancake about 50 miles beneath Yellowstone.
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Dashed lines show boundaries between Earth's crustal plates, and arrows show plate motions.
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Plate tectonics and crustal evolution.
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Sunken islands or guyots with their coral reefs are the result of crustal subsidence as the oceanic plate carries the islands to deeper or lower oceanic crust areas.
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Crustal strain builds up continuously in the region, as the Caribbean plate drifts relative to the North American plate.
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While most of the large earthquakes in the Vancouver area occur at tectonic plate boundaries, the 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake was a crustal event.
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