spreading zone

1. See divergent plate boundary

Example Sentences

“There’s a huge amount of energy and a spreading zone of injury,” Scalea said.

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If you look at the diagrams his firm and Arup have developed to accompany the design, what you see seeping out from the new freeway bridge into nearby neighborhoods is not a plume of pollution but a spreading zone of benefits: an expanded wildlife corridor, better equipped schools, improved air quality.

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Some even lie outside the volcanically active spreading zone in areas where hydrothermal activity was previously not assumed to occur.

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The local temperature is raised, and the part is the seat of a burning sensation and is tender to the touch, the most tender area being the actively spreading zone which lies about half an inch beyond the red margin.

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