Below you will find example sentences with "tectonic plate". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Tectonic Plate in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 17
- Discovered as a combination around: plate
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 7
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 27.2 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 2 start, 14 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "tectonic plate" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a major tectonic plate boundary, a major tectonic plate boundary it, boundary, beneath and north stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with license plate, american plate, plate appearances and american plate, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with tectonic plate
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While Morocco is not located along a major tectonic plate boundary, it does experience occasional seismic activity. (17 words)
The entirety of Australia sits on the Australian tectonic plate, which is classified as a stable continental plate. (18 words)
The Kula Plate is an ancient tectonic plate that used to subduct under Alaska during the Triassic period. (18 words)
The North American plate and Juan de Fuca plate, a small remnant of a much larger tectonic plate that used to subduct beneath North America, meet at the Cascadia subduction zone, which extends from the coast of northern California well into Canada. (42 words)
While Australia didn't have an active tectonic plate boundary like in New Guinea or New Zealand, stress from other boundaries slowly built up to the interior of the plate, eventually causing faults to fail, Prof Cummins said. (38 words)
Shoumatoff (2001), 35 In the Paleozoic Era the Pangaean supercontinent consisted of a single tectonic plate ; it broke into separate plates during the Mesozoic Era and the Tethys sea developed between Laurasia and Gondwana during the Jurassic Period. (38 words)
Example sentences (17)
One tectonic plate, called the Kula-Pacific Plate, slid beneath another, the Asian Continental Plate, unleashing 'colossal' volcanic eruptions that 'sculpted the region's peaks', it explains.
The North American plate and Juan de Fuca plate, a small remnant of a much larger tectonic plate that used to subduct beneath North America, meet at the Cascadia subduction zone, which extends from the coast of northern California well into Canada.
The entirety of Australia sits on the Australian tectonic plate, which is classified as a stable continental plate.
While Australia didn't have an active tectonic plate boundary like in New Guinea or New Zealand, stress from other boundaries slowly built up to the interior of the plate, eventually causing faults to fail, Prof Cummins said.
A third type of basin exists along convergent plate boundaries - places where one tectonic plate moves under another into the asthenosphere.
The Kula Plate is an ancient tectonic plate that used to subduct under Alaska during the Triassic period.
At different sections, you can simply skip from the Eurasian and onto the North American tectonic plate but at its deepest points you struggle to see the bottom of the dark abyss.
The utility has been locked in a dispute with the regulator for years over disaster resilience measures at the Hamaoka plant, which is located near a major tectonic plate boundary.
While Morocco is not located along a major tectonic plate boundary, it does experience occasional seismic activity.
In a paper published to Nature Communications, the team showed that large portions of the African tectonic plate – otherwise known as the lithosphere – have disappeared over the past 200m years.
It’s an environmentally apocalyptic tale; the world is in the midst of tectonic plate shifts, and since the family appear Neanderthal, it must have be the Pleistocene Epoch shifting into the Holocene Epoch.
East Africa is one of the world’s most active rift zones, with the African tectonic plate splitting into two separate plates.
As it sits on the edge of a subduction zone (where one tectonic plate sinks under another), the Trough sees a lot of volcanic activity.
Shoumatoff (2001), 35 In the Paleozoic Era the Pangaean supercontinent consisted of a single tectonic plate ; it broke into separate plates during the Mesozoic Era and the Tethys sea developed between Laurasia and Gondwana during the Jurassic Period.
The motion of the Indian tectonic plate and the eruptive history of the Deccan traps show strong correlations.
The process is continuing to build islands; the tectonic plate beneath much of the Pacific Ocean continually moves northwest and the hot spot remains stationary, slowly creating new volcanoes.
This line runs along what is now known to be a tectonic plate boundary, and separates Asian (Western) species from Australasian (Eastern) species.