"plate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Subduction zones are also associated with earthquakes because of the strain associated with plate convergence.
- One cause for shallow subduction may have been an increased rate of plate convergence.
- It has also been classified as a 'Carpathian' type orogen, i.e. one where subduction rate is greater than that of plate convergence.
- In early Miocene times (24 Ma), plate convergence caused regional compression.
- Nevertheless, for the Andes as a whole, compressive stresses arising from plate convergence have not been the major cause of uplift.
- Deformation of the weak Tibetan crust and flow in the upper mantle may have resulted from the north-south squeezing generated by plate convergence.
- One very obvious form is the volcanism of island arcs and continental-margin orogens associated with plate convergence.
- The strains caused by plate convergence in subduction zones cause at least three different types of earthquakes.
- Thrusting occurred during a late Paleozoic episode of plate convergence.
- They are formed by continental plate convergence.
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