The outer trench swell, outer trench high, or outer rise is a subtle ridge on the seafloor near an oceanic trench, where a descending plate begins to...
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the trench; the seafloor is elevated into a broad swell that is a few hundred meters high and referred to as the "outer trench bulge" or "outer trench rise"...
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Subduction (redirect from Arc-trench complex)
approaches the subduction zone, there is often an outer trench high or outer trench swell. Here the plate shallows slightly before plunging downwards, as a...
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only the largest of such events (typically related to flexure in the outer trench swell) cause enough displacement to give rise to a significant tsunami,...
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Mohorovičić discontinuity Vine–Matthews–Morley hypothesis Oceanic crust Outer trench swell Ridge push Seafloor spreading Slab pull Slab suction Slab window Subduction...
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After their generation by the wind, ocean surface waves can travel (as swell) over long distances. Oceans portal Tsunamis portal Climate change (general...
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Immersion foot syndromes (section Trench foot)
necrosis setting in. As the condition worsens, feet may also begin to swell. Advanced trench foot often involves blisters and open sores, which lead to fungal...
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Mohorovičić discontinuity Vine–Matthews–Morley hypothesis Oceanic crust Outer trench swell Ridge push Seafloor spreading Slab pull Slab suction Slab window Subduction...
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Caribbean, Ontong Java, and Mid-Pacific Mountains, are located on thermal swells. Other oceanic plateaus, however, are made of rifted continental crust,...
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Mohorovičić discontinuity Vine–Matthews–Morley hypothesis Oceanic crust Outer trench swell Ridge push Seafloor spreading Slab pull Slab suction Slab window Subduction...
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Mohorovičić discontinuity Vine–Matthews–Morley hypothesis Oceanic crust Outer trench swell Ridge push Seafloor spreading Slab pull Slab suction Slab window Subduction...
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wave base, the outer ramp, below the storm wave base. In distally steepened ramps, a distal step is formed between the middle and outer ramp, by the in...
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Outline of oceanography (section Oceanic trenches)
the oceanic portion of a tectonic plate Outer trench swell – A subtle ridge on the seafloor near an oceanic trench, where a descending plate begins to flex...
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Mohorovičić discontinuity Vine–Matthews–Morley hypothesis Oceanic crust Outer trench swell Ridge push Seafloor spreading Slab pull Slab suction Slab window Subduction...
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Retrieved September 1, 2024. LaPierre, Megan (July 26, 2024). "Marianas Trench Announce First New Album in Five Years, Haven". Exclaim!. Retrieved August...
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organized to aid in the defence, the weight of the attackers, whose ranks were swelled by tribesmen from the hills, compelled the last of the defenders to retire...
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River bank failure (section Windrows and trenches)
causing swells large enough to sink a boat. Some swells were caused by the sediment falling into the river, but at other times the swells themselves...
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often occurring along a large river or on the shores of a large lake. swell 1. The regular, undulating motion of the surface of a large body of water...
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reinforcements to Plevna, and their army, now personally led by the Grand Duke swelled to 100,000 men. On 3 September Skobelev reduced the Turkish garrison guarding...
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Mireau quickly convinces himself that the attack will succeed. In the trenches, Mireau throws a private out of the regiment for showing signs of shell...
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size as the former, but owing to the rapid motion of the fish, and a heavy swell of the sea, which rendered the boat unsteady, the rocket entered below the...
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features a young woman who is bitten on the cheek by a spider. The bite swells into a large boil and soon bursts open to reveal hundreds of tiny spiders...
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before shooting them. Trenches were sometimes dug and filled with grain so that a hunter could shoot the pigeons along this trench. Hunters largely outnumbered...
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and contained interior bunkers, trenches, firing apertures. The main parapet was just 1.2 metres high, the outer trench a metre deep and the entire system...
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Hemisphere in the Roaring Forties, long, organised masses of water called swell roll across the ocean.: 83–84 If the wind dies down, the wave formation...
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involved lowering the rail line into a trench or elevating the rail line above the road. Some projects in outer suburbs, such as Gap Road near Sunbury...
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starting with conjunctivitis (also known as pink eye), after which the eyelids swell, resulting in temporary blindness. Extreme ocular exposure to mustard gas...
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piers after the waves retreated. Two women in northern Peru drowned in the swell when 2 m (6 ft 7 in) waves hit Naylamp beach, Lambayeque, dragging a truck...
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fever and rashes. The meninges (and sometimes the brain itself) begin to swell, which affects the central nervous system.[citation needed] Even with antibiotics...
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that the oligotrophy of the ocean euphotic zone persists right up to the swell-battered reef crest. When you approach the reef edges and atolls from the...
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