"chiefly consists" is a perfectly acceptable construction in written English and can be used in a variety of contexts.
For example, you could say, "The transportation industry chiefly consists of cars, trains, and planes."
The majority of European Americans live in Northwest D.C., while Southeast D.C. chiefly consists of a poor African American population.
Disappointingly, it seems the disparity between the "right" and "wrong" drafts of Franzen's book chiefly consists of minor typographical errors and typesetting changes.
The study area chiefly consists of unconfined Tertiary sedimentary aquifers.
The lower concentration of potassium is due to the more resistant nature of potash feldspar against chemical weathering process (Hem 1985a; Thivya et al. 2013b), because the major part of the aquifer chiefly consists of hornblende biotite gneiss.
It follows that God's rectitude and holiness "chiefly consists in a respect or regard to himself, infinitely above his regard to all other beings" and that, as a consequence, his works must be "so wrought as to show this supreme respect to himself" (End of Creation, 1765; Edwards 1957–, vol. 8, 422).
In the context of previous methods explaining expression clusters with cis-regulatory information, the novelty of our work chiefly consists in a model-based treatment of the dynamical gene expressions.
The mountains chiefly consist of granite pierced through by crystalline rocks containing feldspar.
Carell's real hesitation was that the job chiefly consisted of scouring the country for schmucks to mock.
Alluvial soils on the coastal plains chiefly consist of deep loam and clay, and residual clays cover the valley floors.
Bulk cargoes, chiefly consisting of mining and forestry products and prairie grains, are moved to the United States or overseas by the Great Lakes St.
Yet during their three-month orientation, in a village called Mahobong, their contact chiefly consisted of studying Sesotho, Lesotho's language, and speaking it over dinner or on breaks.
