Sentence examples for main shield from inspiring English sources

Tahiti-Nui is composed of a main shield volcano cut by two huge landslides on each side of a main E W rift zone.

The mission was part of a programme called Ground-based Midcourse Defence (GMD), which is supposed to provide America's main shield against intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) with a range beyond 5,500km 3,4188 miles).

For the KIPT design, the cold neutron guides need to extend several meters outside the main shield of the facility, and curved guides will also be used to remove the gamma and high-energy neutron.

The basins developed on the flanks of the main shield are wider, shallower, and gentler than the basins incising the post-landslide second shield, indicating a higher degree of evolution.

In foreign affairs the Islamic Republic's policy is to exploit its reputation across the Muslim world for principled opposition to America and Israel, while strengthening economic ties with China, its main shield against sanctions, and emerging powers such as Brazil and Turkey.

In the centre of the blue field is the main shield of the coat of arms of Croatia with the historical arms of Croatia surrounding the main shield.

In this study two main shielding methodologies, active and passive, are comprehensively investigated for crosstalk and EMI alleviation.

The investigations also showed that main shielding materials, ferritic steel and B4C, could be used separately in a two-layered shielding configuration.

The main objective was the increase of solid-angle acceptance by about one order of magnitude taking into account stringent space limitations given by the geometry of the muon production target and the existing main shielding of the proton channel.

The plug consists of a main shell, a shielding cassette and a retractable tube.

These new works suggest that the current state of Tahiti can be oversimplified as the result of two giant north and south flank landsides of the main volcano shield around 0.87 Ma, followed by a second shield stage that ended around 0.250 Ma.