The Crust

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241Chemical engineering / Alkanes / Natural gas / Methane / Clathrate hydrate / Hydrocarbon / Propane / Ethane / Petroleum / Chemistry / Fuel gas / Fuels

1  Natural gas exists in nature under pressure in rock reservoirs in the Earth’s crust, either in conjunction with and dissolved in heavier hydrocarbons and water or by itself.  It is produced from the reservoi

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Source URL: www.golng.eu

Language: English - Date: 2014-01-16 09:18:23
242Orogeny / Subduction / Crust / Mantle / Accretionary wedge / Continental crust / Lithosphere / Oceanic crust / Mantle plume / Geology / Plate tectonics / Structure of the Earth

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Source URL: www.earthbyte.org

Language: English - Date: 2010-03-02 18:17:02
243Continental crust / Subduction / Crust / Crafoord Prize / Lithosphere / Tectonics / Geology / Plate tectonics / Structure of the Earth

PRESSMEDDELANDE Press release 16 J anuaryThe Crafoord Prize in Geosciences 2014

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Source URL: www.crafoordprize.se

Language: English - Date: 2014-01-15 12:12:47
244Geodynamics / Dan McKenzie / Tectonics / Mantle convection / Subduction / Lithosphere / Earth science / Crust / Mid-ocean ridge / Geology / Plate tectonics / Structure of the Earth

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

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Source URL: www.crafoordprize.se

Language: English - Date: 2013-10-14 18:19:55
245Earth / Subduction / Mantle / Lithosphere / Transition zone / Oceanic lithosphere / Mesosphere / Crust / Foreland basin / Geology / Plate tectonics / Structure of the Earth

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Source URL: www.eas.slu.edu

Language: English - Date: 2009-03-17 17:36:26
246Plate tectonics / Tectonics / Shear zone / Fault / Continental crust / Metamorphic core complex / Shear / Extensional tectonics / Mantle / Geology / Structural geology / Structure of the Earth

Mode of crustal extension determined by rheological layering C. Wijns, R. Weinberg, K. Gessner, L. Moresi Abstract Pre-existing structures and weaknesses are often thought to control the behaviour of continental crust un

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Source URL: earthbyte.org

Language: English - Date: 2010-03-02 22:57:44
247Subduction / Pacific Plate / Island arc / Seafloor spreading / Geology / Plate tectonics / Tectonic plates

Plate tectonics The plates Pa I 10 min Students are given a world map of the plates and they count up how many are made of only oceanic crust, how many of only continental crust and how many are a mixture of both. Studen

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Source URL: www.earth-science-activities.co.uk

Language: English - Date: 2013-08-18 13:16:08
248Lithosphere / Subduction / Rift / Crust / Asthenosphere / Mantle / Continental crust / Rio Grande rift / Geology / Plate tectonics / Structure of the Earth

–Methodology background information– Oblique Rifting in the Equatorial Atlantic: Why there is no Saharan Atlantic Ocean Christian Heine1∗, Sascha Brune1,2† 1 EarthByte

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Source URL: www.earthbyte.org

Language: English - Date: 2014-03-03 22:41:58
249Structural geology / Fault / Compression / Wrench / Stress / Geology / Physics / Mechanics

STRESS PATTERNS This activity is designed to show the relationship between the stresses in the earth’s crust and the type of fault produced. Stresses in any one block of rock can be resolved into three mutually perpend

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Source URL: www.earth-science-activities.co.uk

Language: English - Date: 2013-08-18 13:20:51
250Structure of the Earth / Earth / Geophysics / Crust / Massif / Reflection seismology / Geology / Plate tectonics / Geology of Europe

66 (Praha), Balanced Crustal Density Model along Geotraverse 9HR in Western Bohemia

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Source URL: geolines.gli.cas.cz

Language: English - Date: 2006-01-29 18:40:50
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