Sentence examples for depression in the surface from inspiring English sources

Crater, circular depression in the surface of a planetary body.

The two additional α-helices of AviRa filled a depression in the surface.

A natural depression in the surface of the land caused by the collapse of the roof of a cavern or subterranean passage, generally occurring in limestone regions.

A squat is a rolling contact fatigue crack below the surface of a rail that leads to a depression in the surface.

When thrown at a shallow angle, it penetrates only a small distance into the water creating a depression in the surface through which it planes back onto the surface.

We hypothesized that this 'hole' represents a depression in the surface of the spine head viewed from above and possibly formed by a presynaptic bouton.

This left depressions in the surface that geologists call kettles.

On the strength of depressions in the surface of the terrace, Kowalski (1987, fig. 12) shows four probable chultuns near its southern edge.

Most have patterns based on cup marks – circular depressions in the surface, often surrounded by concentric rings, with lines or grooves that extend from them – and are thought to date from 4000 to 2000BC.

During the flyby, the spacecraft imaged a hemisphere of the asteroid, revealing many large craters that have gouged out depressions in the surface.

Except in the family Salamandridae, the head, body, and tail have a number of vertical depressions in the surface which run from the mid-dorsal region to the ventral area and are known as costal grooves.