Sentence examples for fall of sea from inspiring English sources

Similarly, a rapid base-level change, such as a fall of sea level, may not allow adequate time for the entire longitudinal profile to adjust.

Widespread continental ice sheets had developed in Gondwana to the point that their expansion and contraction began to drive the rise and fall of sea level, producing cyclic depositions that characterize the later part of the Carboniferous.

He traced the evolution of certain groups of invertebrates and developed the pulsation and polar control theories that state that the crustal features of the Earth were caused by the rhythmic rise and fall of sea level.

The rise and fall of sea level matched the warming and cooling in the Pacific and other oceans.

The slow rise and fall of sea levels over tens of millions of years may be due in part to meanderings of Earth's spin axis, according to a provocative study in today's issue of Science.

Habitats above sea level include aquatic (ice-covered and ice-free lakes, ponds and wetlands, peats, rivers and streams, geothermal fields) and non-aquatic environments (especially areas with low rain regimes) that experience drastic changes governed by tectonic activity and climatic conditions, including the rise and fall of sea level, glaciations, and rain regimes (e.g., Romans and Graham 2013).

This work sheds new light on the recent evolution of the Indus sedimentary system and illustrates the importance of the delta/river evolution during the fall of sea-level (e.g., incised valley formation) on the timing of sedimentary transfer and sediment distribution at the basin-scale.

Occurrence of deep-water sand delivery under low sediment influx probably requires fall of relative sea level.

A 2200 cal yr event resulted in a sudden reorganisation of the distributary system whereby distal delta sedimentation abruptly shifted north- to northeastwards to an area temporarily subjected to marine erosion during fall of relative sea level.

Tidal energy technology harvests power from the rise and fall of the sea caused by the gravitational forces of the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of the Earth.

In Ceremony of Innocence Leo Warner's back-projections offer photographic stills of a monumental brick-built structure and computer-generated images of the rise and fall of the sea.