Sentence examples for a main control on from inspiring English sources

Microbial methane (CH4) oxidation is a main control on emissions of this important greenhouse gas from ecosystems such as contaminated aquifers or wetlands under aerobic conditions.

Following the transition, Laramide-style structures became the main control on subsidence causing a reorganization of the basin, long-term rise in accommodation and onlapping sequence architecture.

The main control on the iPod is a scroll wheel: you spin it with your thumb to navigate the long list of songs (or artists or genres), touch a button to pick a track and use the wheel again to adjust the volume.

The main control on the distribution of Ordovician faunas was temperature.

This tilting appears to have been the main control on the down-dip expansion of shelf strata towards the basin.

In experiments with low ionic strength groundwaters (<0.01 mol L−1), pH variation is the main control on sorption.

Instead, processes occurring in the soil exerted the main control on predicted atrazine leaching, especially variations in the degradation rate and the strength of sorption and macropore flow.

Although the correlation between CaO/Al2O3 and Sc/Y versus MgO are strong in the Surtsey Magma Series, we note several issues with invoking clinopyroxene-dominated fractionation as the main control on variation among Surtsey's magmas.

The main control on sedimentation in the Piauí Formation was glacioeustasy, which was responsible for the changes in relative sea level.

In the central part of the Baltic Basin these quartz arenites are heavily cemented by quartz and the degree of quartz cementation is the main control on reservoir properties.

The main control on stratigraphic development is interpreted as late icehouse glacio-eustasy but along-strike changes associated with changing shelf edge delivery systems and variable bathymetry due to differential substrate compaction complicate the resultant stratigraphy.