If an ocean floor tectonic plate meets the edge of a continent and they push against each other, the heavier one sinks down and goes under the other one.

如果一个海底构造板块与大陆边缘接触并相互挤压，较重的板块下沉到另一个的下面。

Instead, they are other volcano types, like strata volcanoes, for example, which are a result of the tectonic plate movement.

相反，它们是其他类型的火山，比如地层火山，是板块运动的结果。

Wilson suggested that the long chain of volcanoes stretching northwest from Hawaii is simply the surface expression of a long-lived volcanic source located beneath the tectonic plate in the mantle.

威尔逊认为，夏威夷向西北延伸的火山长链只是一个长期存于板块下、地幔中的火山源在板块表面的表现。

You have gone to English study tectonic plate to!

你去过英语学习板块对吧！

Chapter two: the main discussion "Wang Zhaojun sinks the river" the tectonic plate.

第二章：主要探讨“王昭君沉江”板块。

That was the same day as the 9.0-magnitude quake and tsunami hit Japan; however, Japan is on a different tectonic plate.

同天，9.0级的地震及海啸在日本发生。但这两个地方并不处在同一个地壳构造板块上。

Along the coast of Pakistan, the tectonic plate underlying the Arabian Sea is diving beneath the Eurasian continent.

沿着巴基斯坦的海岸线，阿拉伯海板块下潜嵌入了欧亚大陆板块。

The Alps's began forming tens of millions of years ago, when the African tectonic plate slowly collided with the European plate.

在数千万年前，非洲地壳板块与欧洲板块的碰撞形成了阿尔卑斯山脉的雏形。

They are also found in volcanic “back-arc” basins behind ocean trenches, where one tectonic plate is sliding beneath another.

在海沟后侧的弧后盆地的火山中，此处是一个板块俯冲到另一板块的地方，也发现了该类通道，。

The geology of this part of the Andes is a result of the eastward subduction of the Nazca tectonic plate underneath South America.

该区域安第斯山脉的地质结构是纳斯卡板块向东俯冲，下穿垫在南美版块之下。

All it takes is for that wallop to act upon a weak point, crushing it, which then allows a tectonic plate to move... maybe an inch.

它所要做的全部就是让这一冲击力作用于一个薄弱点，挤垮它，然后使得一个构造板块移动…可能是一英寸。

Fortunately, many of the biggest, known as "megathrust" earthquakes, as one tectonic plate is forced under another, have occurred in sparsely populated areas.

幸运的是，很多由相邻的构造板块的相互挤压产生的高等级地震大多分布在人烟稀少的地区。

Australia lies in the middle of a tectonic plate (rather than at the boundary between two plates), and research is ongoing into such intra-plate earthquakes.

澳洲位于一构造板块的中部(而非位于两大板块的边界)。并且，研究现在已深入到此类内部板块构造的地震。

In the minority tectonic plate, South America and the African 's competition of Olympic game compare little, and mostly express no - continue, the woman is very.

弱势板块中，南美洲和非洲奥运会竞技项目比较单一，且大多表现出竞技的非连续性，女子为甚。

Most of the time, the two tectonic plates are stuck together, and the North American plate is squeezed, much like a playing card held between the thumb and forefinger.

大部分时间，这两个地址板块卡在一起，北美板块被挤压，很像一个扑克牌夹在大拇指和食指之间。

Just off its coast is the Nazca plate, which rests below the south-eastern Pacific Ocean and slides beneath the South American tectonic plate by some 9 centimetres a year.

智利的海岸线外是纳斯卡板块，它位于太平洋的东南方下面，以每年9厘米的距离向南美板块下俯冲。

The quake happened along a seam in the planet's surface where the Pacific Ocean floor is diving beneath the tectonic plate carrying northern Japan (see 'Collision zone').

这次地震是沿着地球表面的一条缝隙发生的。 在这条缝隙处，太平洋板块正俯冲入另一地壳板块下部，而这块地壳板块正承载着日本的北部地区（见”碰撞带“）。

The major earthquakes and active volcanoes occurring there are caused by the westward movement of the Pacific tectonic plate and other plates leading to subduction under Asia.

由于太平洋构造板块及其他几个板块的向西移动，导致其向亚洲板块之下俯冲，从而会在这一带引发大地震和火山活动。

This collision started more than 50 million years ago, when the tectonic plate beneath India crashed into the Eurasian plate. (Watch how the plates slammed into each other.)

这一碰撞开始于5亿多年之前，当时印度之下的构造板块冲撞入欧亚板块。(略)。

In addition, both regions reside within the Ring of Fire, which is a zone surrounding the Pacific Ocean where the Pacific tectonic plate and other plates dive beneath other slabs of Earth.

此外，两个地区都驻留在火山圈内，那是环绕太平洋的一个区域。在那里太平洋地壳构造板块和其它板块潜于其它地球板块之下。

Well, that's just like what's happening with the Hawaiian Islands, but instead of a sheet of paper, you've got a tectonic plate, and it's moving over this plume of intensely hot magma.

这和夏威夷群岛正在发生的事情是一样的，只不过那是一个地壳板块，而不是一张纸，它正移动到这种炙热的岩浆火焰上方。

"I realized that a lot of the civilizations we were talking about sat right along major tectonic plate boundaries," says Force, who is now affiliated with the University of Arizona, Tucson.

“我认识到现在谈论的很多文明正好位于主要地质板块的边界附近。”现在图森亚利桑那大学的佛思说。

In subduction zones, where older and colder oceanic crust descends beneath another tectonic plate, Deep focus earthquakes may occur at much greater depths (up to seven hundred kilometers).

在隐没带，当更老的和更冷的海洋地壳下降到另一个构造板块下面时，深震源地震可能会发生在非常深的深度(达到700公里)。

So, in recent years, some geologists have used plate tectonic theory to make what they call geopredictions.

因此，近年来，一些地质学家会利用板块构造理论来进行他们所谓的地质预测。

A 60- by 60-mile segment of the Philippine oceanic plate ruptured and thrust itself against the Eurasian continental plate, releasing a massive burst of tectonic energy.

造成方圆60平方英里菲律宾大洋洲板块断裂并向欧洲板块冲撞，释放了大量地壳热量。

Plate tectonic analysis of basin systems interspersed in orogenic belts requires that the effects of approximation be carefully distinguished from those of separation.

分析造山带中盆地系的板块构造时，需要将靠近作用与分离作用仔细区分开来。