Sentence examples for geological estimate from inspiring English sources

The government's geological estimate of likely reserves ranges from about 3 billion to 16 billion barrels, and each side dramatizes what the figures mean in very different ways.

Vences et al. [ 19] calibrated a molecular clock for cichlids that assumed that the divergence time of the most basal endemic lineages in East African Rift lakes (e.g., Tanganyika) corresponds to the geological estimate of the age of the lakes.

No one knows how much oil and gas there might be in these provinces, but based on geological estimates it would be substantial.

According to geological estimates, below Greenland's vast ice sheet could lie enough rare earths to satisfy at least a quarter of global demand in the future.

SCSZ S3 17 17 6702 Bird and Rosenstock (1984) 81 fault motions from geological estimates.

We emphasize that geological estimates of surface energy can be compared with seismological estimates of breakdown work only if they are representative of the same macroscopic scale.

The observed long-term uplift rate (0.2 0.4 mm/year) may be explained by v e  ≥ 9 mm/year though it is three times greater than the geological estimates of 3 mm/year (von Huene and Lallemand 1990).

When we marry the distance estimates with the geological estimates, we can derive rates of molecular evolution for particular nodes.

Given the lack of reliable fossil and/or paleoclimatic data, we used well-documented geological estimates of island ages as our calibration points.

Similarly, the origin of each genetic lineage is congruent with geological estimates of habitat availability.

depauperata and its sister group (P. integrifolia ssp. integrifolia) was compatible with geological estimates of the availability of the coastal plain.