"collision" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This may be due to far distant continental collisions in the build up of Pangea.
- There were several episodes of continental collision, compression and subduction which resulted in mountain building during this time.
- The idea of continental collisions building mountains "up" is therefore rather a simplification.
- The high mountain ranges produced by continental collisions are immediately subjected to the forces of erosion.
- Figure 3 shows the sequence of events illustrating the obduction model following continental collision.
- When two plates move towards one another, they form either a subduction zone or a continental collision.
- A protracted episode of continental collision started at about 610 Ma ago and continued for about 50 million years.
- Next time Ruby went home the troll mountains were going to receive their biggest shake-up since the last continental collision.
- The Alps have a complex geology, but the general structure is the same as for other mountain ranges formed by continental collision.
- Leucogranites have been reported from a variety of orogenies involving continental collisions.
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