Sentence examples for a subsiding from inspiring English sources

In coral atolls there is evidence from deep boring that English naturalist Charles Darwin's original subsidence hypothesis of atoll formation, via barrier reefs from fringing reefs around a subsiding volcanic peak, is substantially correct in many cases.

Police received reports of a subsiding 'grave', which was evaluated positively using GPR and victim recovery dogs (VRD).

Its Mississippian through Pennsylvanian rocks, on the other hand, consist of thick sequences of shales and sandstones deposited rapidly in a subsiding trough.

The land here evolved over thousands of years, forced up as if by a lever by a subsiding Mississippi Delta, its steep grades carved by river tributaries slicing through silty soils.

These deposits occur mostly to the west of Manaus, forming NW SE elongated belts that are progressively younger from SW to NE, indicating a subsiding basin with a depocenter that migrated to the NE.

Moreover, the Beijing Plain is regarded as a typical alluvial plain in a subsiding setting (Beijing Geology and Mineral Bureau, 1991; Li, 1994).

Both approaches point toward the presence of two uplifted areas running SW NE and a subsided zone between them, which is in agreement with previous crustal flexure models.

These data are correlated with ultra high-resolution seismic data and fossil data from core samples to construct a 4D deformation history of a subsided island.

(That sea is a subsided fragment of the continental margin of Europe that was flooded with water from the melted glaciers of the last ice age).

Remember: some worksheets will ask to replace pi with a subside, such as 3.14 or 22/7.

They were deposited in a rapidly subsiding retroarc foreland basin, during frequent base-level changes.