"plate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- While this was going on, the velocity of the African plate slowed considerably.
- The divergent movement of the European and African plates was relatively short-lived.
- For example, a central plate, such as the African plate, may have the motions of adjacent plates referred to it.
- Then the African plate tore away from North America.
- The collision between the Eurasian and African plates made it progressively disappear.
- It seems probable that the edge of the African plate turned under, its rocky components returning to the crust and perhaps even back into the mantle.
- The system is the result of the uplift produced by the pressure of the northward-moving African Plate.
- The crack forming is thought to be part of the process in which the Arabian Plate and African plates are moving apart.
- The archipelago is therefore situated in the zone between the Eurasian and African tectonic plates.
- When the African plate separated from North America, this created an aborted rift system or half gruben.
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