Sentence examples for ephemeral unit from inspiring English sources
The concept of heritability is central to the controversy surrounding intelligence; but heritability of any complex trait (much less a composite trait) is an ephemeral unit of measurement influenced by thousands of genes and genomic components and myriad environmental and cultural factors.
Meso-habitats include ephemeral, individual units such as a sand bar.
Unit 1 has the ephemeral ponds, but none of the other characteristics the frog needs, they contend.
The middle and upper part of the unit captures the evolution from ephemeral fluvial systems with an eolian interval to an ephemeral clastic lake with intermittent volcanic ash deposits.
The base of this section comprises a gravel bed of an ephemeral stream and the overlying six litho-units, each with discrete boundaries, comprise a succession of aeolian sands.
Sedimentologic data indicate that distal alluvial sediments of unit Qah1 accumulated in sandy mud flats and ephemeral playa lakes under arid conditions.
Characteristics of these units throw more light on the fluvial styles, allowing inferences that ephemeral, mud-dominated river systems were also present.
Landscape units, such as eolian sand seas, salt flat and playa lake systems, ephemeral rivers and alluvial fans, interact in response to regional-scale climate variations in hyper-arid, arid, and semiarid climatic settings.
Both the derivative hierarchy and any single derivative are rooted to the field unit, ensuring that each derivative is rooted even if an intermediate derivative is lost, of ephemeral nature or has never been recorded.
Shallowness of each cut-and-fill unit, absence of fining-upward lateral accretion package and the predominance of simple-bar deposit collectively suggest deposition from ephemeral braided streams.
