Sentence examples for ancient topography from inspiring English sources
We hypothesize that the present-day topography reflects the ancient topography and related surface processes, because volcanic deposits from the AD 79 eruption coated the ancient landscape.
We meet Ben Pennington, a geoarchaeologist who, with young Egyptian trainees, is sinking an auger nine metres below the surface in order to glean information about the area's ancient topography and environment.
Paleogeologic reconstructions in map form show not only the ancient topography of a region but also the distribution of rocks beneath the surface and such structural features as faults and folds.
By the turn of the century a team from the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology – originally attracted to the bay by the presence of French warships that sunk in the late 18th century – had created a series of maps sketching out the ancient topography of the region.
It was originally a topographical epicenter within the ancient topography of the city of Rome.
The paleo-uplifts in the Ordos Basin controlled Paleozoic sedimentary facies and weathering crust zonation, where the Lower Paleozoic natural gas distribution is correlated to the positive ancient topography in the early Paleozoic uplifts and their gentle slope zone.
They were accompanied by professor Lorenzo Quilici, an expert of ancient Roman topography from the University of Bologna.
The Forma Urbis is the single most important document on ancient Roman topography (Carettoni et al., 1960).
The Forma Urbis Romae, also called the Severan Marble Plan, is one of the key source documents of ancient Roman topography [Carettoni60].
A most misleading title; the article is about ancient Roman topography, and the identification of the ancient building out of the débris of which that church was carved.
Influenced by the location of shelf-margin delta, during falling sea level, ancient submarine topography, and bottom current reworking effect, submarine fan complexes in the Ledong and Lingshui sags exhibit various sedimentary patterns and geometries.
