-
crust fragment formed on a
tectonic plate (or
broken off from it) and
accreted or "sutured" to
crust lying on
another plate. The
crustal block or fragment...
- A
hernia (pl.:
hernias or herniae, from Latin,
meaning 'rupture') is the
abnormal exit of
tissue or an organ, such as the bowel,
through the wall of the...
- Look up
accretion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Accretion may
refer to:
Accretion (astrophysics), the
formation of
planets and
other bodies by collection...
- In
plate tectonics, a
divergent boundary or
divergent plate boundary (also
known as a
constructive boundary or an
extensional boundary) is a
linear feature...
- (SSSB).
These come in many non-spherical
shapes which are
lumpy m****es
accreted haphazardly by in-falling dust and rock; not
enough m****
falls in to generate...
- plate, it
accreted these island arcs and
terranes to the
North American plate. Much of
western North America is
composed of
these accreted terranes. As...
-
Accretionary wedges and
accreted terranes are not
equivalent to
tectonic plates, but
rather are ****ociated with
tectonic plates and
accrete as a
result of tectonic...
-
latter stages of orogenesis, in contrast, saw
multiple oceanic arc
terranes accreted onto the
western margin of
North America in a "Cordilleran type" accretionary...
- 5 AU (520 million km; 330 million mi) from the Sun. As the
young planet accreted m****, its
interaction with the gas disk
orbiting the Sun and the orbital...
-
efficient energy-producing
processes known. Up to 40% of the rest m**** of the
accreted material can be
emitted as radiation. In
nuclear fusion only
about 0.7%...
