The phrase "appears to form" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that seems to create or establish a particular shape, structure, or pattern based on observation or evidence.
Example: "The clouds in the sky appear to form a dragon as they drift by."
Alternatives: "seems to create" or "looks like it is forming".
Astatine is coprecipitated with cesium iodide and thus appears to form polyhalide anions.
On Fox News, Tucker Carlson denounced Steele as "an intense partisan with passionately left-wing views about American politics," and said, inaccurately, that his "sloppy and reckless" research "appears to form the basis" of the entire Mueller investigation.
This phenolic compound appears to form through acid-catalyzed dimerization-aromatic substitution of 4-vinylsyringol monomers.
Corestone morphology appears to form through the erosion of loosened grus debris at sharp edges of subaerially exposed joints.
The mesmerising maze of symmetrical steps "appears to form a never ending path deep underground," said Quora user Vipul Yadav.
The nanocomposite morphology appears to form by a multi-step POSS aggregation during the process of phase separation.
CO appears to form from both the parent polymer and secondary sources, such as CH2O and CH2CO, at higher temperature.
The roles of the gap junction protein connexin31.1 (Cx31.1) are poorly understood, especially as the protein appears to form non-functional channels.
The NWV appears to form a border between the South China block (SC) (Shen et al., 2005) and the Sundaland block (SU) (Simons et al., 2007) (Fig. 1).
A portion of Swp82 is located in the head region and part of the Snf5 appears to form a bridge between the foreleg and thigh regions.
If swirl number is large enough to let the flow turn back into the center, the vortex break down phenomenon appears to form an IRZ.
