plate-like structure

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• Plate tectonics — The tectonic plates of the world were mapped in the second half of the 20th century …   Wikipedia

• Structure of the Earth — Earth cutaway from core to exosphere. Left picture is not to scale. The interior structure of the Earth, similar to the outer, is layered. These layers can be defined by either their chemical or their rheological properties. The Earth has an… …   Wikipedia

• plate — I. /pleɪt / (say playt) noun 1. a shallow, usually circular dish, now usually of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is eaten. 2. a service of food for one person at the table. 3. an entire course: a cold plate. 4. a plate of sandwiches,… …  

• plate tectonics — plate tectonic, adj. Geol. a theory of global tectonics in which the lithosphere is divided into a number of crustal plates, each of which moves on the plastic asthenosphere more or less independently to collide with, slide under, or move past… …   Universalium

• basal plate — (Subclass Branchiura): Spine studded, plate like structure on basal segment of each maxilla. (spines: alike, unlike; close together, well separated; blunt, curved, scale like, sharp). (Syn. maxillary plate) [Stachowitsch, 1992] …   Crustacea glossary

• frontal plate — Modified rostrum of brachyuran decapods which bears downward projection process between antennules that unites with epistome [Moore and McCormick, 1969]. (Order Anostraca): Clypeus [Stachowitsch, 1992]. (Order Decapoda): In carapace of crab like… …   Crustacea glossary

• epicranial plate — (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) In larval forms, a plate like structure forming the epicranium …   Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

• coxal plate — Lateral expansion of coxa broadly joined to lateral mergin of tergite [McLaughlin, 1980]. Lateral expansion of pereiopod coxa joined broadly to lateral margins of tergites [Moore and McCormick, 1969]. Pereopodal coxae that are expanded as lateral …   Crustacea glossary

• gill plate — (Order Cumacea): In first pair of maxillipeds, plate like structure on posteriorly directed part of epipod. Located in branchial chamber; bears series of branchial lobules [Stachowitsch, 1992] …   Crustacea glossary

• rostral plate — A flat rostrum [Mauchline, 1984]. Anteriorly projecting, unpaired, movably articulated, median extension of carapace (e.g., Phyllocarida). See: rostrum, compound rostrum [Moore and McCormick, 1969]. (Subclass Phyllocarida): Anteriorly projecting …   Crustacea glossary

• bladed (plate-like, platelet) structure — Смотри пластинчатая структура …   Энциклопедический словарь по металлургии