Sentence examples for debris on the surface from inspiring English sources

But we know the plastic debris on the surface of the ocean is taking its toll on marine life.

Shearing of layers of metal over the ceramic left a thin coating of debris on the surface.

Accumulation of such debris on the surface of the strainers produces a fibrous bed, which is a fibrous porous medium that can undermine reactor core cooling.

The bacterium overwinters in seeds and on infected plant debris on the surface of the soil.

In addition, we can find a large number of debris on the surface of the strip in Fig. 8b.

Coluci et al. [39] reviewed the molecular structure of GO and reported the presence of highly oxidized polyaromatic carboxylated fragments (oxidative debris) on the surface of GO.

These lunar images also give the viewer a sense of the debris left on the surface of the moon at a time when the amount of space debris orbiting earth has scientists worried.

Of that, nearly 270,000 tons of large and small plastic debris are on the surface.

"There was little left of the boat apart from debris floating on the surface," he said.

If it crashed into the ocean west of Australia, as officials believe, any debris floating on the surface a month after its March 8 disappearance could be hundreds of miles from where the plane went down.

Radar satellites can operate in any weather condition and at night, says Weeden, and are often used to track ships at sea, so he says they can be used to find debris floating on the surface if it's big enough and made of metal.