Sentence examples for littoral environment from inspiring English sources

During the 3rd millennium BP, this rocky coast was progressively replaced by a sandy littoral environment primarily due to marine deposition, with a coastline located some hundred meters inland with respect to the modern one.

To understand the morphological dynamics of the littoral environment and quantify the amount of coastal erosion, an analysis of coastline change has been carried out using various data sources: historical cartography, aerial photographs and GPS surveys.

Despite some uncertainties associated with the chronology, it appears that Holocene sea-level rise initially flooded Runway Sinkhole and created a littoral environment at least by ∼3.9 ka, whereafter a detrital peat deposit accumulated in the sinkhole.

This study demonstrated that a transient analysis of tomographic slug tests is able to capture the key features of the littoral environment of the test: the vertical profiles of Kh and Kv are indeed in agreement with those from other field and laboratory tests, and Ss values exhibit physically plausible profiles.

But the most important thing is that the house needs to operate in littoral environment, as that's where the wolf power is going to be concentrated in the second half of the century".

This facies belt graded landwards into protected, lower-energy settings (inner platform, lagoon and littoral environments).

During the late Pleistocene, large tracts of coastal lowlands were exposed, while a colder, wetter climate and fluctuating marine conditions interacted with rapidly evolving littoral environments.

Our finding indicates that the stratigraphic successions on the southern Laurasian continental margin of Xizang reflect changes from a deep forearc basin through shallow littoral environments to a mountainous landscape during the Late Cretaceous and early Cenozoic.

Statistical studies in fluvial and littoral environments allowed Passega (1957, 1964) to draw the CM diagram that relates the transport conditions of the sediment prior deposition to grain-size parameters (C99 vs. median grain size).

Disaster relief is one of many scenarios that generate a myriad of critical tasks spanning the land, air, sea and littoral environments -- the U.S. military is required to operate at peak performance across all, both at home and away.

The site also forms part of a sub-littoral environment created by meandering rivers that have been reclaimed by sand filling and human activities.