• Studying faults capable of releasing moderate-to-strong earthquakes is fundamental for seismic hazard studies, especially in a territory that was subject to the strongest peninsular Italy earthquake (1857, M w 7.1) and hosting the largest European oil field on-land. (nature.com)
  • The fluids provide lubricant for the ORZ faults, hence preventing infrequent large magnitude earthquakes, but favoring frequent micro-seismicity. (missouristate.edu)
  • In a two month stretch between September and October in 2005, the Afar Depression experienced 165 earthquakes over 3.9 magnitude, with smaller ones occurring almost continuously . (listverse.com)
  • The USGS says it recorded 22 magnitude 7 or larger earthquakes in 2010, the same year as the devastating earthquake in Haiti. (nhpr.org)
  • Part of the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes, it is a volcano collapse structure located at an altitude of 4,670 metres (15,320 ft) in a depression. (wikipedia.org)
  • About 2,300 ± 160 BCE, the largest known volcanic eruption of the Central Andes, with a VEI-7, occurred at Cerro Blanco, forming the most recent caldera as well as thick ignimbrite layers. (wikipedia.org)
  • This depression appears to have formed in response to north-south tectonic extension of the Puna and is covered by volcanic deposits from Cerro Blanco. (wikipedia.org)
  • Moreover, the images reveal depressions that resemble volcanic calderas along the edges of the bright terrains. (nasa.gov)
  • Volcanic fissure systems of the Mid- Atlantic Ridge plate boundary are partly covered by the western part of the ice sheet. (mtu.edu)
  • Two major volcanic centers lie beneath the ice, the Bardarbunga volcanic centre and the Grimsvötn volcanic centre both with large subglacial caldera depressions. (mtu.edu)
  • The present eruption fissure is located between these two volcanic centres with a direction parallel to the regional tectonic lineament. (mtu.edu)
  • 4) prior to 10,000 years ago, information might be found on the Amboy page in the LaMEVE (Large Magnitude Explosive Volcanic Eruptions) database, a part of the Volcano Global Risk Identification and Analysis Project (VOGRIPA) . (si.edu)
  • Tectonic landscape, a term used in the field of geomorphology, is a type of landscape "whose main features have been shaped by tectonic movements, and whose system of elevations and depressions corresponds to the orogenic and epeirogenic processes. (art.pl)
  • It is probably the major process in the origin of large depressions, gorges and valleys in tropical karst, although other geomorphic processes contribute to shaping and maturation of a landscape and eventually obscure the origin in unroofed caves. (speleogenesis.com)
  • It is part of the Cumberland Plain area of Western Sydney and formed very slowly over 100 million years due to plate tectonic processes. (maps-sydney.com)
  • Cerro Blanco lies at the southwestern end of the Carachipampa valley, a volcano-tectonic depression flanked by normal faults which extends to Carachipampa. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ascending streams of hydrogen and other gases move along the tectonic faults of the lithosphere. (scirp.org)
  • Upward flows of hydrogen and other gases move along tectonic faults and fissures of the lithosphere from the mantle and core of the Earth. (scirp.org)
  • The sixth continent is surrounded by a dense network of tectonic faults. (scirp.org)
  • Antarctic rift and major tectonic faults. (scirp.org)
  • Large negative anomaly in the total atmospheric ozone content over the Western Antarctic Rift system and tectonic faults along the continent borders (September 10, 2015). (scirp.org)
  • Geometry and faults tectonic activity of the Okavango Rift Zone, Botsw" by Kelsey Mosley Bufford, Estella A. Atekwana et al. (missouristate.edu)
  • We used Magnetotelluric (MT) and Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) to investigate the geometry and nature of faults activity of the Okavango Rift Zone (ORZ) in Botswana, an incipient rift at the southern tip of the Southwestern Branch of the East African Rift System. (missouristate.edu)
  • The ORZ forms a subtle topographic depression filled with Quaternary lacustrine and fluvio-deltaic sediments and is bounded by NE-trending normal faults that are more prominent in the southeastern portion of the rift basin. (missouristate.edu)
  • These transform faults make the mid-ocean ridge system look like a giant zipper on the seafloor (Figure 4.5.2). (edu.vn)
  • The images in colour, high resolution and 3-D show spectacular, curvilinear faults that have been opened up to 1 700 meter deep depressions by faulting in the Acheron mountain ranges. (fu-berlin.de)
  • The recent tectonic uplift of the Vršac Mts occurred in the Middle to Late Miocene along the WSW-dipping normal faults that control deposition in the adjacent Zagajica depression. (uu.nl)
  • Tectonic exhumation of the Jastrebac Mts, together with a cluster of Serbo-Macedonian gneiss domes that emerge from the surrounding Neogene sediments in the western-central part of the Morava Valley Corridor, was induced by corrugated detachment faults during the Oligocene-Miocene E-W oriented Dinaridic extension. (uu.nl)
  • Alternative interpretations consider the Pie de San Buenaventura, Robledo and Cerro Blanco calderas as one 13-by-10-kilometre (8.1 mi × 6.2 mi) caldera, that the Robledo and Cerro Blanco calderas are one system or envisage the existence of only three calderas. (wikipedia.org)
  • Simultaneously the ice cover on the 10 km diameter Grimsvötn caldera some 15 km to the south of the active subglacial fissure started to rise indicating that melt water from the eruption was flowing into the caldera depression and lifting its ice cover. (mtu.edu)
  • Within the ice filled Grimsvötn caldera intense geothermal activity continuously melts the ice to form a subglacial lake, which at intervals of 5 to 10 years is emptied along subglacial channels to create large floods (jökulhlaup) on the sandur plain, Skeidararsandur, on the Icelandic south coast. (mtu.edu)
  • Supervolcanoes like Toba Caldera, Sumatra, produce the largest eruptions on Earth. (nature.com)
  • Herein we present a thermochronologic perspective on these issues from Toba Caldera on the island of Sumatra, the site of the Earth's largest recent supereruption. (nature.com)
  • Then we show that these post-caldera eruptions sampled the cold "halo" of a long-lived warm magma system and erupted under subsolidus conditions without thermal remobilization. (nature.com)
  • But one point, thirty years ago, the ever-moving system of large plates reached its tipping point, and we have been observing its convulsions ever since. (art.pl)
  • The Tectonic Plates series, in the making since 2020, large-scale geopolitical upheavals: military conflicts, pandemics, protest waves, remaking of the world order, and cultural revolutions. (art.pl)
  • The overwhelming power of the tectonic plates that created this fold and thrust mountain belt of the northern Phillip Smith and Romanoff Mountains also humbles us. (mushing.com)
  • A narrow zone, the rift is a developing divergent tectonic plate boundary where the African Plate is in the process of splitting into two tectonic plates, called the Somali Plate and the Nubian Plate , at a rate of 6-7 mm (0.24-0.28 in) per year. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Earth's lithosphere, which includes the crust and upper mantle, is made up of a series of pieces, or tectonic plates, that move slowly over time. (edu.vn)
  • As the name suggests, a mid-ocean ridge is usually found in the ocean, and is the line where two tectonic plates meet. (listverse.com)
  • Haiti sits on a fault line between huge tectonic plates, big pieces of the Earth's crust that slide past each other over time. (nhpr.org)
  • The nation sits on a fault line between huge tectonic plates of the Earth's crust - the North American plate and the Caribbean plate. (nhpr.org)
  • these are surrounded by pyroclastic cones and depressions. (wikipedia.org)
  • The major types of tectonic basins are formed from faulting. (github.io)
  • A series of distinct rift basins, the East African Rift System extends over thousands of kilometers. (wikipedia.org)
  • Africa's landforms are constituted by very long (several thousands of kilometers) wavelength relief of broad "basins" (depressions) and swells (Holmes, 1944) possibly controlled by mantle dynamics. (hal.science)
  • Consequently, the Nile River, the longest river on Earth and main object of this study, crosses today a set of two former endorheic systems (Ugandese and Sudanese "Basins") and one exorheic system (Egyptian Margin) along its courses to the Mediterranean Sea. (hal.science)
  • A depression forms when a weak section of the earth's crust separates, resulting in an earthquake. (github.io)
  • As Antarctica has been found to be the area with the highest concentration of volcanoes, this structure can be viewed as the key link in the global system of linear depressions formed during the stretching of the Earth's crust. (scirp.org)
  • Tectonic subsidence that was associated with the extension corresponds to deposition of a second megasequence, estimated to be about 1000 m thick on Banzare Bank. (soton.ac.uk)
  • A common symptom of voracious groundwater use, subsidence is taking a toll on the world's largest urban areas. (circleofblue.org)
  • Aquifers with larger soil particles tend to be more "elastic," meaning that subsidence can be partially reversed when more water is stored. (circleofblue.org)
  • At about 72 Ma, predominant tectonic activity, characterized by widespread extension and uplift forming the tilted block morphology, occurred over large areas of the SKP. (soton.ac.uk)
  • Large, frequent floods can be expected to occur again within 10 or 20 years if - as expected - the historical pattern of rainfall and flooding repeats itself. (maps-sydney.com)
  • These ripple marks are among the largest on Earth and have been compared to Martian ripple marks by geologists. (wikipedia.org)
  • In recent years, intensive tunnel construction has induced a large number of karst collapses in the Gele Mountain area. (swdzgcdz.com)
  • Multiple groups of karst collapse are developed in the wide karst depression, trough or dense area of tectonic fissure covered by Quaternary silty clay in the tunnel site. (swdzgcdz.com)
  • The multi-stage rock cave and fracture system provide a good spatial development condition for the formation of karst collapse, and the cave-inducing force mainly comes from the change of groundwater dynamic condition caused by tunnel construction. (swdzgcdz.com)
  • In the incubation period the water-rich karst fissure and cave system are initially exposed during tunnel construction. (swdzgcdz.com)
  • The South China karst offers evidence that un-roofing of caves is a large-scale geomorphic process playing an important role in the formation of cone and tower karst. (speleogenesis.com)
  • Rainfall and groundwater may collect in this depression, forming a lake. (github.io)
  • Beijing, one of the world's most water-scarce large cities, has long drawn on groundwater reserves to supply more than 20 million people. (circleofblue.org)
  • A number of factors are at play, including tectonic fault lines, soil types, and the location of groundwater wells. (circleofblue.org)
  • The research object is groundwater in the zones of exogenous weathering and tectonic fracturing of the ore-crystalline basement of the Archean-Proterozoic. (mdpi.com)
  • Valles Marineris, the largest canyon system on Mars, shown in a composite of images taken by the Viking 1 and 2 orbiters. (britannica.com)
  • Valles Marineris , vast system of interconnected canyons on the planet Mars . (britannica.com)
  • In a previous research effort a terrain partition framework was defined allowing the partition of the landscape of Valles Marineris chasma (an elongated steep-sided depression located in Mars) to elementary objects. (usgs.gov)
  • The rectilinear mountain fronts are a key indicator of the tectonic forces that shape the terrain of Valles Marineris chasma. (usgs.gov)
  • The lake basin was formed as a result of tectonic activity and is fed by the Jhelum River. (github.io)
  • India's largest fresh lake, the Wular Lake was shaped as a result of tectonic activity and is fed by the Jhelum watercourse. (github.io)
  • In 1972 it was proposed that the EAR was not caused by tectonic activity, but rather by differences in crustal density. (wikipedia.org)
  • As the volcanological community grapples with hazard assessment and monitoring of current activity with a view to forecasting future activity and mitigating hazards, a better understanding of the resurgent and restless history of large calderas is, therefore, an imperative. (nature.com)
  • The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard ESA s spacecraft orbiting Mars has imaged the Acheron Fossae region, an area of intensive tectonic activity in the past. (fu-berlin.de)
  • Igneous and metamorphic rock, due to distortions from tectonic activity, are usually cracked. (veryboring.com)
  • It soon became their largest stronghold in the area, until February, 1944, when American troops launched an attack that sank more than 60 ships and 275 airplanes . (listverse.com)
  • The bathtub mudstone rock layers are folded into a broad, shallow, basin-shaped depression, which is surrounded by steep terrain. (maps-sydney.com)
  • Typical elements of tectonic sculpture are horst and graben, sinkholes, and tectonic edges. (art.pl)
  • [1] Horst and graben, sinkholes, and tectonic edges allude to the geopolitics of the former Soviet Union. (art.pl)
  • Geographical information systems (GISs) are now widely applied in hydrology and geomorphology to automate basin, hillslope, and stream network analyses. (researchgate.net)
  • Early single-channel and recent multichannel seismic reflection data together reveal major tectonic events in the history of the Southern Kerguelen Plateau (SKP). (soton.ac.uk)
  • In this paper, data deriving from remote analysis and fieldwork surveys reveal key clues for better understanding the structural style and its control on the seismotectonic setting of a large portion of the intra-Apennine extensional belt of southern Italy. (nature.com)
  • Tiankengs are giant collapse dolines formed over large river caves, with continuous precipitous perimeter and a diameter-to-depth ratio between 0.5 and 2. (speleogenesis.com)
  • The massive mid-ocean ridge system is a continuous range of underwater volcanoes that wraps around the globe like seams on a baseball, stretching nearly 65,000 kilometers (40,390 miles). (edu.vn)
  • The last eruption within the Bardarbunga centre occurred in 1910, but eruptions on the fissure system have occurred in 871 AD, 1477 AD and 1862 AD, all producing substantial amounts of lava. (mtu.edu)
  • This event was followed by an intense earthquake swarm with a large number of small events with intermittent larger quakes of magnitude 3-4 on the Richter scale. (mtu.edu)
  • On Earth, calderas are large, more-or-less circular craters usually caused by the collapse of underground lava reservoirs. (nasa.gov)
  • Large calderas are collapse structures formed by the catastrophic evacuation of magma from the tops of upper crustal silicic magma reservoirs. (nature.com)
  • Often called supervolcanoes, these calderas and their associated magmatic foundations provide valuable insight into outstanding questions about the nature of crustal magmatic systems, the construction of upper crustal batholiths, and the evolution of the continental crust. (nature.com)
  • Hence, large segments of the Northern Serbo-Macedonian sub-unit including its contact with the Supragetic Unit were buried beneath the Neogene sediments of the Morava Valley Corridor, as the southern prolongation of the Pannonian Basin. (uu.nl)
  • The Terrain Analysis System (TAS) was designed to meet the research needs of government and academic scientists while being simple enough in operation to be used for student instruction. (researchgate.net)
  • Whitebox, and its predecessor, TAS (Terrain Analysis System), are stand-alone GIS software programs developed by Dr. John Lindsay (University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario) for hydro-geomorphic operations and analysis. (researchgate.net)
  • A lower sedimentary megasequence was deposited at this time, primarily in depressions on the plateau. (soton.ac.uk)
  • In the case of animals, one sees this effect primarily with large herd stampedes, such as the Blue Wildebeest on the Serengeti plain. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • This complex tectonic frame exhibits almost all types of plate boundary conditions such as continental collision and extension, oceanic subduction, and continental transform. (copernicus.org)
  • These lakes later may have drained catastrophically to the east, where there is evidence of large floods. (britannica.com)
  • The East African Rift ( EAR ) or East African Rift System ( EARS ) is an active continental rift zone in East Africa . (wikipedia.org)
  • The term is thus applied to the landward portion of the upward slope from oceanic depths to continental highlands, to a region of depression in the interior of a mountainous region, to a plain of denudation, or. (absoluteastronomy.com)
  • The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. (absoluteastronomy.com)
  • GVMID should provide a snapshot and baseline view of the techniques and instrumentation that are in place at various volcanoes, which can be use by volcano observatories as reference to setup new monitoring system or improving networks at a specific volcano. (si.edu)
  • at 35º-40º northern latitude and 220º-230º eastern longitude, and about 1000 km north of the complex of the large volcano Olympus Mons. (fu-berlin.de)
  • The way these features look is quite different from any volcano in the solar system, whether they are ice examples or rock volcanoes. (penmediainc.com)
  • Like the famous Hindu proverb of the blind men and the elephant, these disparate views expose that our interpretations may be limited by the parts of the magmatic system that is sampled by the eruption and the tools being used 12 , 13 . (nature.com)
  • Our objective is here to unravel the paleorouting systems of the Nile River through relief growth, tectonic, and climate since the uppermost Cretaceous.Several generations of stepped pediments, proxies of relief growth, were characterized and mapped on DEM and satellite images and dated using their geometrical relationships with dated magmatic rocks. (hal.science)
  • The subsequent Late Jurassic-Paleogene closure of the Vardar Ocean led to the E-ward subduction of the Neotethys oceanic lithosphere beneath the upper European plate (i.e., the Sava subduction system). (uu.nl)
  • The retreating and steepening of subducting lithosphere during the Late Cretaceous triggered syn-subductional extension in the upper plate of the Sava subduction system. (uu.nl)
  • The latter criterion separates tiankengs from other types of giant collapse features, such as caprock collapses over evaporates or large collapses over hydrothermal cavities. (speleogenesis.com)
  • Solution: The Wular lake is integral to the hydrological system of the geographical area's natural depression. (github.io)
  • What are the different types of plate tectonic boundaries? (edu.vn)
  • The present work develops a comprehensive probabilistic seismic hazard study for Lebanon, a country prone to a high seismic hazard since it is located along the Levant fault system. (researchgate.net)
  • The southern one is known as the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault system. (nhpr.org)
  • both are larger than 64 mm in diameter and are ejected during an explosive eruption. (usgs.gov)
  • We think these particularly bright terrains were formed by volcanism, which means that most or all the other bright terrains started out this way, and became fractured or grooved over time through tectonic forces. (nasa.gov)
  • Tectonic landscapes are shaped by powerful forces whose actions exceed the imagination of man, because they function in different time categories and shape the overall structure of our environment. (art.pl)
  • A depression in geology is a landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area. (absoluteastronomy.com)
  • The researchers analyzed images of an area dominated by two large hills called Wright Mons and Piccard Mons, Which scientists believe are ice volcanoes. (penmediainc.com)
  • The area is home to one of the largest lava lakes in the world, the Erta Ale, and it's believed that the Horn of Africa will eventually split away from the rest of the continent at this site. (listverse.com)
  • The embryo begins as a two-dimensional planar structure, and just prior to the third week, the stage is set for the development of the central nervous system in the area of ectoderm thickening known as the neural plate. (medscape.com)
  • In the current research effort Grand Canyon is delineated from the one degree USGS DEMs and various geomorphometric parameters are computed in an attempt to capture the geomorphometric signature of the largest canyon in earth. (usgs.gov)
  • As Bardarbunga the Grimsvötn centre is a part of a a fissure system which includes the Laki fissure, which in 1783 produced about 12-14 km3 of basaltic lava. (mtu.edu)
  • The dominantly pahoehoe lava field divided the Bristol Dry Lake, occupying a depression between the Bristol and Bullion Mountains, into two playas. (si.edu)
  • The IRA algorithm is accessed from the Remove Depressions subfolder of the Pre-processing menu in TAS v2.0.9 (JohnLindsay, 2005).The IRA algorithm parameters were set to minimize both the number of cells modified and the mean absolute elevation differences in the DEMs with culverts while, at the same time, enforcing drainage over flat areas. (researchgate.net)
  • Large chunks of rock would be broken out from the center and smaller pieces around the periphery. (veryboring.com)
  • That method drills a hole and pressurizes existing joints inside the rock face, pushing the rock out in large pieces. (veryboring.com)
  • Several canyons merge at the centre to form a depression 600 km (375 miles) across and as much as 9 km (5.6 miles) deep. (britannica.com)
  • The mission began in 2006, and took detailed images of the surface of Pluto, a dwarf planet and the largest object in the Kuiper belt. (penmediainc.com)
  • Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system and larger than the planet Mercury. (nasa.gov)
  • The Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft each passed near Jupiter in 1979 and then explored more distant parts of the solar system. (nasa.gov)
  • Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. (absoluteastronomy.com)
  • It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets. (absoluteastronomy.com)
  • When the probe flew over the dwarf planet now in 2015, it took unprecedented pictures One of the most important distant objects in our solar system. (penmediainc.com)
  • The Bardarbunga centre is a part of a fissure system extending over 100 km to the south and some 50 km to the north of the glacier. (mtu.edu)
  • The extension centered along several NW-SE trending rift systems, in places creating well-preserved axial rifts. (soton.ac.uk)
  • Its 12 scientific experiments have enhanced researchers' understanding of Jupiter's atmosphere, large moons and vast magnetic field. (nasa.gov)
  • But the newly created images, taking advantage of the large quantity of Voyager images and the higher resolution of Galileo's, point to volcanism as the main impetus behind the troughs. (nasa.gov)
  • Flow of ash and angular rock fragments larger than 26 cm or 10 in. (usgs.gov)
  • Rock Disassembly is a tunneling system based on an array of armored robotic arms using tools that break rock by pushing outward from behind the advancing face. (veryboring.com)
  • BACKGROUND The embodiments herein relate generally to systems and methods for disassembling rock structures for the purpose of constructing tunnels or other structures. (veryboring.com)
  • More specifically, embodiments of the invention are directed to a rock disassembly framework system for storing a plurality of tools that disassemble a rock structure. (veryboring.com)
  • The term bears an evolutionary meaning, referring to the youthful stage of open collapse doline development, and the relationship of tiankengs to large underground rivers. (speleogenesis.com)
  • The originality of the approaches is to integrate data of all the source-to-sink (S2S) systems to produce a coherent scenario of the evolution of the Nile.We proposed the following model for the evolution of the Nile River. (hal.science)
  • We welcome all types of studies that aim to quantify the rates of active plate deformation and the dates of tectonic events, regardless of their spatio-temporal scale or methodology. (copernicus.org)
  • Twice, on 21 January in orbit 37, and again on 24 February 2004 in orbit 143, the camera system was pointed at this interesting geological feature of the Acheron Fosssae mountain range situated approx. (fu-berlin.de)
  • Rotstein, Y. , Schlich, R. , Munschy, M. and Coffin, M.F. (1992) Structure and tectonic history of the southern Kerguelen Plateau (Indian Ocean) deduced from seismic reflection data. (soton.ac.uk)
  • First, a main large pediplain is formed during the uppermost Cretaceous (?75-66 Ma), acting as a base of any kind of landforms that would be formed afterwards, bounded westward by the Darfur-Ennedi crest. (hal.science)