Another possibility is that the sinking plate cools the neighboring mantle and produces convection currents that move the plates.
另一种可能是下沉的板块冷却了邻近的地幔，并产生对流，使板块移动。
It seems possible that a sinking current of cooled mantle material on the upper side of the plate might be the cause of such deep basins.
看来，板块上侧冷却的地幔物质的下沉流可能是造成这种深盆地的原因。
An alternative theory is that the sinking part of the plate, which is denser than the hotter surrounding mantle, pulls the rest of the plate after it.
另一种理论是，板块下沉部分的密度大于周围较热的地幔，将板块的其余部分拉在后面。
Plate movements are the surface expressions of motions in the mantle—the thick shell of rock that lies between Earth's crust and its metallic core.
板块运动是地幔运动的表面现象。地幔是位于地壳和金属内核之间的一层厚厚的岩石壳。
As the ocean floor plate begins to sink down into the mantle, it would drag or pull the entire plate along with it.
当海洋底部开始下沉到地幔中，它会同时将整个海底板块拖拽下去。
More and more of this plate, the ocean floor, would go down under the continent into the mantle.
越来越多的这种板块，即海床，将在大陆下方进入地幔。
The oceanic plate is made of denser and heavier rock, so it begins to sink down under the continental plate and into the mantle.
海洋板块是由密度更大、更重的岩石构成的，所以它开始下沉到大陆板块之下，到地幔之中。
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。
Mantle material can sink at a plate boundary, and then flow back upward farther away, pushing on the crust - a process called small scale convection.
地幔，这种物质可以在板块边界处下沉，然后向上回流到较远的地方，再与地壳相碰撞——这个过程被称为小规模的对流。
There one plate dives under the edge of another and is reincorporated into the mantle.
在这里，一块板块潜没到另一板块的边缘之下并结合入地幔之中。
With the new algorithms, the scientists were able tosimulate global mantle flow and how it manifests as plate tectonics and themotion of individual faults.
使用新算法，科学家们能够模拟全球地幔流动以及它是如何显明板块构造和断层移动的。
It is in fact this cooling which powers the slow circulation of the mantle, and through that the endless remaking of the surface through plate tectonics.
事实上，这种冷却过程为地幔的缓慢流动提高了动力，驱使着板块运动，实现无止境地重塑地球表面。
The deepest earthquakes typically occur at plate boundaries where the earth's crust is being subducted into the earth's mantle.
最深的地震通常发生在板块边界的地方的地壳正在俯冲到地球的地幔。
It is consistent with the results obtained from other data. The possible mechanism is lithosphere plate motion and mantle flow.
这与用其它资料分析的结果一致，可能的机制是岩石圈板块运动和地幔对流。
Plate motion is one of the major dynamic sources for crustal and mantle deformation.
板块运动是地壳和上地幔变形的主要动力来源之一。
No comprehensive theory accounts satisfactorily for the driven force of plate motion and mechanism of mantle convection.
至今还没有完整理论阐明板块运动的驱动力和地幔对流机制。
Geophysical studies of the earth's crust and upper mantle in China are important in the understanding of the global plate tectonics and its dynamical system of the whole region.
中国地壳与上地幔的地球物理探测对于全球板块构造和其动力系统的研究有着重要意义。
High-pressure metamorphic rocks form during subduction of Earth's crust to mantle depths at convergent plate margins.
高压变质岩是在俯冲的过程中形成的，从地壳到地幔，深度不等的聚合板块边缘。
The relation between mantle plume and plate motion is summarized.
阐明了地幔柱构造与板块构造的关系。
Deep seated earthquakes, often severe in magnitude, generally occur beneath subduction zones, as one plate is forced deep into the mantle beneath another.
当一个板块被迫深人另一个板块下面的地幔中时，强烈的深源地震一般会发生在俯冲带的下部。
Under certain conditions, the global plate motions revealed by GPS and other measurements reflect the horizontal flow in the uppermost mantle.
GPS等测量显示的全球板块运动在一定条件下反映地幔顶部的水平流动。
The theory of plate tectonics is the mainstream of tectonic in the present, and mantle plume tectonics is the important supplement for it.
板块构造理论是当今大地构造学的主流，地幔柱构造则是对它的重要补充。
Results show that the thermal effect of plate motion driven mantle flow and its contribution to the observed heat flow is greater than that due to internal density anomaly (tomography based).
结果表明，与地幔内部密度异常产生的热效应相比，运动的板块及其激发的地幔流动在全球地表观测热流的产生和分布特征上起着更为重要的作用。
The evidence from seismic tomography indicates that the vortex tectonics is a consequence of the effect of upward mantle vortex on the base of lithospheric plate.
根据层析成像资料推测，上述涡旋构造是上升型地幔涡旋对岩石圈板块底界驱动作用的结果。
Both the Pacific plate and the Siberian block slowed down in the early Cretaceous, and almost stopped in the middle Cretaceous with the rapid decrease of abnormal heat in the mantle below.
进入早白垩世晚期至晚白垩世早期，由于双重俯冲带中西侧俯冲作用带基本停止活动，而本区地慢热能的快速衰减则控制盆地的构造热演化；
The Earth's crust being molten and differentiated from the mantle has long been the foundation of geology and also has been taken as the fundamental cause of plate movement.
地壳从地幔中熔融出来是地质学立论的基础，也是板块构造运动的基本原因。
The theoretical stress releasing period of crust and mantle in India and Burma plate is calculated by viscoelastic model. It is about 56a and close to the strong earthquake activity period.
利用粘滞模型计算了印缅板块地区壳幔的理论应力释放周期为56年，与该地区的强震活动周期基本吻合。
Rare earth elements (REE), trace elements and forming environment of basic dykes and basalt share similar characteristics with plate basalts and typical basalt formed by mantle column.
基性岩墙和玄武岩的稀土元素、微量元素、形成环境等均与板内玄武岩或典型的地幔柱成因玄武岩具有相似的特点。
The alkali-syenites are of mantle-crust mixing type. The genesis of the rocks is associated with the orogenesis within the plate;
本区碱性正长岩类属幔壳混源成因类型，其成因与板内造山作用有关；
The alkali-syenites are of mantle-crust mixing type. The genesis of the rocks is associated with the orogenesis within the plate;
本区碱性正长岩类属幔壳混源成因类型，其成因与板内造山作用有关；
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