"formative process" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to refer to any process that helps to shape something, such as a person's character or values. For example: "Having a loving family is part of the formative process that helps children to develop into mature adults."
A given landform or deposit is only stable in association with its formative process and environment, and in any subsequent alternative setting it begins to change toward a new equilibrium morphology.
Mr. Maazel is often at his most persuasive in Sibelius, perhaps because the distensions of tempo and phrase that he so enjoys seem integral to the composer's aesthetic, which came to rely less on standard theme and development than on a churning formative process.
Three primary types of evaluation are formative, process and summative.
This paper examines the formative process of an urban mega-project (UMP) in Seoul from a multi-scalar perspective.
This article is about the logic and abstraction seen as a necessary relation in the formative process engineers.
Given a family F of sets, a formative process ending in the Venn partition Σ of F is shown to exist.
In fluvial geomorphology, it entails efforts to relate local landforms to their landscape context, generating place-based understandings that can be related to theoretical principles about diversity of forms, formative processes, patterns/configurations of features, and evolutionary adjustments.
Differences in the form of the gullies and in the formative processes appear to be associated with differences between colluvial layers and the saprolite.
These include toxicity to the overlying RPE, stigmata of formative processes such as extrusion or secretion of cellular materials, extracellular enzymatic processing, cellular invasion or activity, and markers of a diffusely distributed disease process affecting RPE and BrM.
These strategies are hip's formative processes.
This paper introduces formative processes, composed by transitive partitions.
