Sentence examples for have incised from inspiring English sources

In response to this uplift, rivers have incised at an average long-term incision rate of about 0.22 mm y− 1 and have progressively captured drainage areas from the chain interior.

A neighbor, Pijaju Peter Skipper, began to make simple works that reproduced punarrapunarra — the kinds of repetitive patterns he might once have incised on a shield.

Most celadons attributable to the Ming period have incised under the glaze floral and foliate decoration of a kind that also appears on blue painted wares.

It is an ancient massif eroded to a wide, undulating plateau, but uplift has regenerated the erosion cycle, and the Struma and Mesta rivers have incised valleys that provide difficult routes.

Some, as at Sohano on Bougainville Island in the northern Solomons (c. 500 bc) and Yule Island off the southern coast of Papua New Guinea (c. 1000 2000 bp), have incised designs that may derive from Lapita.

Other vessels have incised patterns that cleverly mimic basket weaves, like the chevrons on a large redware bowl from 3100-3000 B.C. Also here are examples of faience, a blue-green paste made from crushed quartz or sand and often substituted for the more precious turquoise or lapis lazuli.

The Colorado River has incised a 450km-long chasm that in some places is 29km wide and 1.6km deep.

The major drainage system, the Owyhee River, has incised several notable canyons in an area locally called the Rimrock Country.

Once they had incised a narrow letter-box-like opening a hundred or so feet into the cliff, they began to carve downward.

Working in a style that came to be called Precisionism, Demuth painted within pencil lines that he had incised into fiberboard panels.

These copper strips have been rolled with the writing on the inner side, but the stylus has incised so deeply it must have been pounded in that the text can be partly made out in relief.