Sentence examples for buoyant surface from inspiring English sources

But I'm intrigued by the distortions which quirk the buoyant surface.

Rubber mounted underneath the living room's maple floor made it a gently buoyant surface for an after-dinner fox trot.

SEDFLUX combines individual process-response models into one fully interactive model, delivering a multi-sized sediment load onto and across a continental margin, including sediment redistribution by (1) river mouth dynamics, (2) buoyant surface plumes, (3) hyperpycnal flows, (4) ocean storms, (5) slope instabilities, (6) turbidity currents, and (7) debris flows.

Inflows are controlled by their density relative to that of the lake, such that warm inflows will flow over the surface of the lake as a buoyant surface flow and cold, dense inflows will sink beneath the lake water where they will flow along the bathymetry towards the deepest point.

A fast global resurfacing event is the result, which consumes the old and cold lithosphere until it is stopped by the resulting, globally spanning young and still buoyant surface.

The movement of buoyant, surface-drifting seaweed rafts is constrained by near-shore circulation patterns, wind, coastline morphology, tidal currents and river plumes, although the prevailing shelf/slope circulation patterns also play a role in offshore transport.

Possible topics include fronts, buoyant plumes, surface and bottom boundary layers, wind-driven upwelling, coastal-trapped waves, internal waves, quasi-steady flows, high-latitude shelf processes, tides, and shelf-open ocean interactions.

The concept is of a buoyant, rigid, surface-piercing diaphragm, the edges of which are held still but whose central area moves in resonance with the swell component of an ocean wave system.

But Kenya, however buoyant on the surface, still has dangerous eddies swirling below.

This is how a dive works: Because of the air in our lungs, we are buoyant on the surface and remain so until about fifteen metres.

We tried drowning one in a garbage can but it kept surfacing, buoyant as a rubber duck.