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Значения термина continental plate на английском

русский
тектоническая плита
португальский
placas tectônicas
испанский
placa litosférica
каталонский
tectònica

Continuous section of the lithosphere of the Earth which is moving relative to adjacent plates.

тектоническая плита
Использование термина continental plate на английском
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No one has the faintest idea how or why Yellowstone's ended up beneath a continental plate.
A short history of nearly everything
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I lay there as mountains formed and the continental plates shifted.
Temperance Brennan 01 - Déjà Dead
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The underside of the continental plates we live on-belowthe discontinuity lies the upper mantle.
The Jennifer Morgue
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Water flows to the mantle through areas where oceanic plates dive beneath continental plates, called subduction zones.
Wired
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Think of it this way: the surface of the Earth is made up of a mosaic of continental plates.
BBC
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That is because this park is at the very site where two continental plates separate North America and Eurasia.
BBC
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The Solomons are part of the Pacific "Ring of Fire," where colliding continental plates frequently causes seismic activity.
Reuters
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Indonesia straddles Asia's so-called "Ring of Fire", where continental plates collide and earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are frequent.
Reuters
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Indonesia sits atop Asia's so-called "Ring of Fire" where continental plates collide and earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are frequent.
Reuters
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What is especially remarkable is that I am essentially on a sort of no-man's land, on a ridge between two continental plates.
BBC
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Sometimes, like in the Himalayas, continental plates thrust themselves into each other, and with nowhere to go but up, they build mountains.
BBC
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Indonesia lies along the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire" where the collision of continental plates brings frequent seismic and volcanic activity.
Reuters
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The part of this process that's relevant to the global thermostat is "subduction," in which seabed plates are sometimes shoved beneath continental plates.
Analog sff, december 2009