How to use in-sentence of “crustal”:
– Along most of the edges of this craton are fragments of crustal material called terranes.
– The crustal portions of oceanic tectonic plates are made mostly of basalt, produced from upwelling mantle below mid-ocean ridges.
– Ocean trenches are typically caused when an oceanic crustal plate slides under a lighter continental plate or another oceanic plate.
– The oldest continental crustal rocks on Earth are cratons between 3.7 and 4.28 billion years old.
– The Ring of Fire is a direct result of plate tectonics and the movement and collisions of crustal plates.
– Because the Pacific plate is the largest of all the tectonic plates on Earth, crustal material at its western edge has had up to 170 million years to compact and become very dense; hence its great height-difference relative to the higher-riding Mariana Plate, at the point where the Pacific Plate crust is subducted.
– Transmission of flood basalts through a shallow crustal sill and the correlation of sill layers with extrusive flows: the Palisades intrusive system and the basalts of the Newark Basin, New Jersey, U.S.A.
