The volcanic island eventually subsides from view, leaving a reef whose uppermost part is like a saucer whose rim reaches up to sea level and whose deeper central area is a lagoon.
As shown in Figs. 3, 4, 5 and 6, every SAP profile shows a trend that the uppermost part has the highest attenuation.
Previous studies suggested that the hydrated oceanic crust, which is the uppermost part of a subducting plate, plays an important role in fluid transportation into the mantle (e.g., Iwamori and Zhao 2000; Kawakatsu and Watada 2007).
Soil moisture refers to the water present in the uppermost part of a field soil and is a state variable controlling a wide array of ecological, hydrological, geotechnical, and meteorological processes.
It has a kind of an apse or exedra at the uppermost part, through which one comes from the natatio into the frigidarium, and you can see that is screened by columns.
These cheniers are located on the uppermost part of a macrotidal flat in Mont-Saint-Michel bay (North-Western France).
The uppermost part is a mudstone layer, indicating gradually waning energy.
At ground level the uppermost part of a bioerosive notch is visible.
DITFs were not observed, except for a few examples in the uppermost part of the image (56 to 61 mbsf) (Kinoshita et al. 2009).
The uppermost part is a major contributor of SPM to the Yangtze River and is characterized by steep slopes of the riverbed and deep and steep valleys (Yang et al. 2006).
Firstly, some caution should be exercised when interpreting the longitudinal trends in MFA within a stem, particularly in the uppermost part of the stem, as most of the data were collected from below 60% of relative height.
