"pressure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- These folds were caused by tectonic pressures some 30 million years ago as the African and European continents collided.
- Alternatively, some other mechanism such as the underground formation of methane bubbles or a build-up of tectonic pressure may be responsible.
- Although this new wrinkle, moving the moons around to alleviate the tectonic pressures within the planet, had the potential to pose some nasty complications.
- Colossal tectonic pressures would cause continents to buckle, fracture, fold.
- The main tectonic pressure was from the south or south-east.
- The foldings were caused by tectonic pressures as the African and European continents collided.
- But here tectonic pressures must have produced the subsidence and prevented the immediate re-establishment of isostatic equilibrium.
- This tectonic pressure created a deeply fractured and fissured sheets of rock that began to shift direction about 25 million years ago.
- The main tectonic pressure was from the south or south-east, and may have resulted in dextral strike-slip faulting.
- Beginning about 200 million years ago, tectonic pressure forced the sea floor beneath the American continental mass.
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