Sentence examples for forming preferential from inspiring English sources

Those structures weakened surface rocks and facilitated their erosion, thus forming preferential channels for surface water flows.

Trapping and exchange of water occurred repeatedly during successive infiltration and drainage cycles, implying a (hysteretic) memory effect of the previously formed preferential flow paths.

But this study, published in the American Journal of Primatology, is one of the first to show that primates form preferential bonds between relations of the same sex before they have even left the group.

Significant secondary intergranular pores have formed in analcite-cemented reservoirs from selective dissolution of analcite in the mesodiagenetic stage; the analcite dissolution formed preferential flow paths in the reservoirs, which promoted feldspar dissolution; and dissolution of such minerals led to the present reservoirs with medium porosity and low permeability.

In particular, in the direction of the six corners of the platelets (i.e., [11̅0] and the other five equivalent directions) straight Cu atomic columns can form preferential avenues for the inflow/outflow of cations (see also the sketches in Figure 6) with a small perturbation of the anion sublattice.

SEC could also be used to detect cases where a monomeric species was mixed with a homo-oligomerizing partner, forming a preferential heterodimer.

Cervical crypts are thought to entrap and store sperm (Fawcett and Raviola, 1994; Harper, 1994) and scanning electron microscopy of the human cervix indicates that mucosal grooves forming a preferential pathway for sperm could be present, though a comprehensive study of the human cervix is needed to determine whether sperm follow these grooves to traverse the cervical canal.

Recharge calculations (chloride mass balance and water-table fluctuation methods), salinity, stable isotope, tritium and radiocarbon data show that volcanoes and the youngest basalts, although volumetrically minor, form preferential recharge areas for all the basalts (up to ∼30 mm/year), and also recharge the deep lead sediments through volcanic necks that penetrate the aquitard.

In rough form, preferential rights are calculated based on how much local agencies paid to establish the regional wholesaler, which now supplies water to six Southern California counties.

Adult male chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus) form preferential associations, or friendships, with particular lactating females.

For the case of substrate bias Vb = − 50 V and high rotation speed of the substrate, the film is polycrystalline with no preferential growth mode, while for lower speeds two nanocrystalline layers are formed with preferential growth orientations: [100]nitrides//[100]Si in the first zone and [111]nitrides//[100]Si in the second one.