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ridge push
Noun
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Japanese Meaning
リッジプッシュとは、プレートテクトニクスにおける仮説的な推進力で、中洋脊で、堅いリソスフェアが下に位置する熱く隆起したアセノスフェア上を滑ることにより発生する、プレート運動の駆動力を意味します。
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(geodynamics, tectonics) A proposed driving force for plate motion in plate tectonics that occurs at mid-ocean ridges as the result of the rigid lithosphere sliding down the hot, raised asthenosphere below mid-ocean ridges.
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Geophysicists measured the magnitude of ridge push to better understand how mid-ocean ridges drive plate motion.
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Geophysicists measured the magnitude of ridge push to better understand how mid-ocean ridges drive plate motion.
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