Sentence examples for emplaced over a from inspiring English sources

The complex comprises dominantly dacitic, subaqueous dome rocks and interstratified sedimentary horizons emplaced over a few tens of thousands of years.

As the cryptodome was emplaced over a period of several weeks (Cashman 1992), the timescale of pre-eruptive gas adsorption may be up to five orders of magnitude longer than during the eruption itself (e.g. Mastin 2007).

The majority of lava flows were emplaced over periods of 2 3 days.

The Glarus Overthrust of Oligocene Miocene age is well exposed at elevations approaching 3000 m in the Swiss Alps as a generally flat-lying but arched thrust contact (Fig. 8) between overlying Mesozoic carbonates and the Permian Veruccano formation emplaced over Tertiary Flysch (Herwegh et al. 2008).

Later, Jaeger et al. (2010) proposed a single eruption covering 250,000 km2 of western Elysium Planitia with an estimated 5,000 7,500 km3 of mafic or ul-tramafic flood lava emplaced turbulently over a period of several weeks.

Humanitarian demining entails peacetime detection and deactivation, over an indefinite period of time, of virtually every mine emplaced in a wide area-a place of home and work to many people whose resources are often scarce and life arduous.

This was accompanied by high-temperature A-type granitic magmatism over an 80 Ma period, sourced in part from mantle-derived components and emplaced as a series of pulsed events that also coincide with peaks in UHT metamorphism.

For the purposes of this demonstration, the charge was emplaced by a Marine technician, Gunnery Sergeant Pierre Anthony.

absolute dud -- A nuclear weapon which, when launched at or emplaced on a target, fails to explode.

If a granite is emplaced into a limestone, the contact region may be flooded with silica and other components, leading to the formation of a metasomatic rock.

The allochthonous masses were emplaced by a combined gravitational and tectonic mechanism.