"crust" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Along with sedimentary rocks parts of the basaltic ocean crust were also deformed.
- Each volcano is in part the product of melted ocean crust.
- Where this occurs, rare slices of ocean crust, known as ophiolites, are preserved on land.
- The island is approximately 123 million years old and was formed out of an older ocean crust.
- But this very difference means Icelandic crust is not the same as normal ocean crust.
- He was best known for his studies on the magnetic properties of ocean crust and their effect on plate tectonics.
- This suggests that the lower part of the ocean crust contains a substantial magnetic signature.
- He also conducted research on the structure of the ocean crust and the properties of rocks and minerals.
- The ocean crust would in effect act as a kind of giant tape recorder of magnetic anomalies over time.
- Since the Miocene there has been shortening of the ocean crust absorbed by folding, and thrusting.
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