单词 | rift zone |
释义 | > as lemmasrift zone rift zone n. ΚΠ 1908 Calif. Earthquake April 18, 1906 (State Earthquake Investig. Comm.) I. ii. 401 On the bottom lands of streams or embayments in the Rift zone, cracks in the ground were exceedingly common. 1977 A. Hallam Planet Earth 78/3 The heating of the rocks beneath the rift zone causes expansion, and this accounts..for the updoming. 2002 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 23 Oct. r11/1 Since Iceland straddles the mid Atlantic ridge, it is literally being slowly ripped in half by separating tectonic plates,..evidenced here by the rift zone. < as lemmas |
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