Sentence examples for by weathering from inspiring English sources

Portals of rock tunnels are often in soil or in rock weakened by weathering.

Olivines gelatinize in even weak acids and offer little resistance to attack by weathering agents and hot mineralizing (hydrothermal) solutions.

When an organism dies, it is usually destroyed by other forms of life and by weathering processes.

However, specific in this volume are the landforms and landform processes dominated by weathering.

We've got this far by weathering countless storms, by picking ourselves up after being knocked down, by finding chinks of light in oppressively grey skies.

Julien Benneteau became the fifth Frenchman into the Round of 16 by weathering an early storm against Robin Soderling, a big-hitting Swede.

In a strict sense, epiclastic conglomerates and breccias are the only true sedimentary rocks, because they alone are produced by weathering.

The bulk composition of most wackes mimics that of their source owing to a lack of chemical differentiation by weathering and sorting.

These are secondary minerals that commonly occur as alteration products of native silver, silver sulfides, and sulfosalts in silver deposits that have been oxidized by weathering.

The Cenozoic leaching of rocks by weathering in humid climates which forms iron-rich residuals (laterization)—also affected the uplands, from northern Queensland to Tasmania.

Plant growth is envisaged to have been sufficiently extensive and well-anchored to trigger the end-Ordovician glaciation by weathering-drawdown of CO2[7].