| 单词 | continental rift |
| 释义 | continental riftA long, narrow fissure in the Earth marking a zone of the lithosphere that has become thinner due to extensional forces associated with plate tectonics. Continental rifts are thousands of kilometers in length and hundreds of kilometers in width, and they are associated with normal faults and with grabens. Words nearby continental riftcontinentality, continentalize, continental margin, continental philosophy, continental quilt, continental rift, continental rise, continental seating, continental shelf, continental slope, continental system The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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