crustal
IPA: krˈʌstʌɫ
adjective
- Of, pertaining to, or forming a crust, especially the crust of the Earth or other planet.
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Examples of "crustal" in Sentences
- This was deformed in the upper crustal layers.
- Methane is ubiquitous in crustal fluid and gas.
- Methane is ubiquitous in crustal fluid and gas .
- The crustal layer involved in the rupture was thick.
- Rifts are linear zones of localized crustal extension.
- But the crustal thickness appears to vary significantly.
- Basin and range topography results from crustal extension.
- These minerals are common in crustal rocks such as granite.
- Grabens are indicative of tensional forces and crustal stretching.
- Crustal subsidence was greatest beneath the thickest accumulation of ice.
- GPS data represented by arrows showing present crustal movement directions and relative magnitudes.
- The Pacific Ocean's crustal plate is sliding underneath the crustal plate Japan rests upon, he says, triggering the quakes.
- Vertical tree trunks preserved in rock strata are evidence of continental type volcanos (as opposed to basaltic oceanic crustal volcanos).
- If I was a muslim about to build a mosque, I would certainly study the crustal movements of my potential mosque spot relative to that of Mecca, before building.
- They're "the payload" - if we need to drive a palentologist and a crustal geologist around Mars a bunch, they're NSSA astronauts, even if a NSDA astronaut pilots the lander/ascent vehicle and tags along to help carry rocks back to the rover.
- Japan's largest earthquake on record may have knocked the planet 3.9 inches off its axis as one crustal plate slid beneath another, Eric Fielding, a principal scientist with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., told Bloomberg news agency.
- Eventually the granite that forms the "basement" of our current continents formed in the crust, probably by fractional crystallization of lighter oxides of silicon and aluminum (accelerated by rapid mixing of crustal materials via subduction, remelting, and metamorphosis).
- Another item of interest is that the magmas which feed the Hawaiian arc are pretty much exclusively basaltic, as would be expected from their deep-mantle origin, whereas the yellowstone magmas are of the granite/rhyolite/andesite (aka "crustal") varieties - which would appear anomalous - but at any rate, I wonder do they contain He and Ar in enriched amounts? report abuse
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