Sentence examples for biological weathering from inspiring English sources
Our results relate to alteration of the materials primarily via chemical and biological weathering.
Detergent-like dispersants applied offshore accelerate both physical and biological weathering, but chemists have yet to see obvious signs that dispersants are helping.
This study focuses on another application: the monitoring of biological weathering of natural building stones and concrete.
It also enhanced the influence of photosynthesizers on the planet's atmosphere, increasing oxygen concentrations and drawing down carbon dioxide by biological weathering [1].
Sediments and sedimentary rocks form under natural process of physical, chemical and biological weathering of igneous, metamorphic and old sedimentary rocks.
Biological weathering is attributable to solubilisation of rock-forming elements by chelating agents and H2CO3, bioaccumulation of the elements, and nucleation of secondary silicates by chelate complexes functioning as templates for epitaxial growth of specific crystal structures.
Temperature and relative humidity were recorded with a Telaire model 7001 carbon dioxide monitor (General Electric Sensing, Goleta, CA) and used to calculate apparent temperature, a biological weather stress index that incorporates both temperature and relative humidity (O'Neill et al. 2003).
Biological Fe weathering likely involves enhanced microbial activity, exudation of protons and organic acids by plant roots and fungi, and plant uptake.
It is organized in the environment through a combination of natural processes such as biological activities, weathering reactions and volcanic emissions as well as through a range of anthropogenic activities (Kinniburg and Smedley 2001; Kapaj et al. 2006; Walter and Carter 1995).
It would be highly desirable to direct resources toward enhancing the immune system so as to enable the patient with a better chance to overcome this biological 'severe weather'.
Weather conditions in the study area were not further standardized to retain the interpretability and biological plausibility of weather conditions for C. gattii population dynamics.
