plate boundary

collocation in English

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plate
noun
uk
/pleɪt/us
/pleɪt/
a flat, usually round dish with a slightly raised edge that you eat from or serve ...
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boundary
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbaʊn.dər.i/us
/ˈbaʊn.dər.i/
a real or imagined line that marks the edge or limit ...
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(Definition ofplateandboundaryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This observation, in turn, casts further doubt on the concept of the standard 'universal' flatplateboundarylayer.
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The history of this emergingplateboundaryis preserved in the rock record of a series of well-known rift valleys and lakes.
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Eventually, the pressure rise becomes great enough to separate theplateboundarylayer and cause the formation of another bubble.
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It is this curtain that causes separation of theplateboundarylayer.
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This rift system is undoubtedly the world's best natural laboratory in which to study incipient continental break-up and the formation of a newplateboundary.
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The suture zone may be the presentplateboundaryin the active orogenic belt, and may have played a different role at an earlier stage in its geological history.
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Movement on this convergentplateboundaryleads to many earthquakes, some of them of megathrust type.
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The magnitude 7.9 earthquake was also a result of thrust faulting on the sameplateboundary.
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A mid-ocean ridge demarcates the boundary between two tectonic plates, and consequently is termed a divergentplateboundary.
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Usually, only two arms of any given three-armed graben become part of a divergentplateboundary.
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Furthermore, they did not occur on the tectonicplateboundary, but rather in the middle of the plate.
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Not all forces within the system form a divergentplateboundary, some strike-slip movement occurs in the fault system.
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However, at the time of its formation the volcanic belt may have been coincident with the subductedplateboundary.
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When the subducting plate approaches the trench obliquely, the convergentplateboundaryincludes a major component of strike-slip faulting within the over-riding plate.
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The range sits near a convergentplateboundarywhere one plate overrides another.
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