Sentence examples for applied to the fossil from inspiring English sources
(d) Annual precipitation reconstructed by a calibration function applied to the fossil pollen assemblages.
Similar strictures should be applied to the fossil fuel industry, particularly to an area as controversial as fracking.
Resin was applied to the fossil found on a slab of shale and the bones and the tracings of its soft tissue would attach themselves to the resin.
Here we use morphometric analysis of spheroid echinate phytoliths from fossil and modern palms (Phoenix reclinata and Hyphaene petersiana) and their corresponding soils to determine if the differences are significant and can be confidently applied to the fossil samples.
Still, Janzen notes that the connection between colors and behavior can be applied to the fossil record just as it can to modern moths: "We have no reason to suspect that basic field ecology was different 40-plus million years ago than it is today".
Punctuated equilibrium originated as a logical extension of Ernst Mayr's concept of genetic revolutions by allopatric and especially peripatric speciation as applied to the fossil record.
The results with decaying fish, he adds, "can be applied to the interpretation of soft-bodied fossils in general, and particularly to determining their true place in the tree of life".
Specimens were carefully prepared for analysis by the curators of the Institute Carlos III in Madrid, the repository of the SH fossils, removing any consolidants previously applied to the bone surfaces.
Fossil specimens retaining outer cortical lamellae show that a scraping mechanism was applied to the bone surface.
