Sentence examples for desert surface from inspiring English sources

Quartz sand abounds, covering more than a third of the desert surface.

Once a desert surface is disturbed, a chain reaction of events is set in motion that can prove damaging.

She plays Sandy, an ambitious and self-sufficient geologist sent to a remote desert surface mine to meet a visiting Japanese businessman (Mr. Tsunashima).

Right now, 13 drilling rigs are busy probing and mapping the ore deposits, about a quarter-mile below the desert surface.

Hawks knew what a cameraman should do – Lee Garmes brought to Scarface the desert surface Hawks knew he wanted – but he made no pretence about placing lights or finding angles.

Elsewhere the desert zones of the Sahara and the Kalahari were alternately subjected first to humid and then to dry and arid phases that expanded the desert surface at the expense of adjacent forested zones.

Contrary to desert stereotypes, sand dunes are nearly nonexistent, and stony desert surfaces are seldom visible except in the far southwestern portion of the state.

It was easy for them to melt back into the desert, surfacing again and again to strike back at their enemies.

As a result of the arid phases it underwent during the Quaternary period (2.6 million years ago to the present), the Mauritanian landscape in general presents three different aspects; these are represented by skeletal soils, regs (desert surfaces consisting of small, rounded, tightly packed pebbles), and dunes.

Desert surfaces can exhibit both a backscattering and forward scattering characteristics.

Desert surfaces are typically stable and represent some of the longest-lived landforms on Earth.