Sentence examples for major geological structures from inspiring English sources
Most of the rockslides appear in the western Cordillera Principal and cluster along major geological structures.
Two major geological structures have been identified in the study area that comprise a set of linear faults and several ring-faults (Fig. 1b) (KML 1999a; SKM 2005a, b; Noorollahi et al. 2008; Ghaedrahmati et al. 2013).
The effects of the rock mass major discontinuity on the fracture treatment showed that major geological structures would act against fracture growth and decrease the efficiency of fracturing process.
We suggest that Phoenicolacerta started radiating during the mid-late Miocene, and that both vicariance and dispersal events shaped the diversification and distribution of the genus concomitantly with the formation of major geological structures and climatic fluctuations in the Levant.
In the central highlands of Eritrea, the fractures derived as lineaments from digitally enhanced Landsat TM images are grouped based on their tectonic origins and relative ages into three major sets of geological structures, Set 1, Set 2 and Set 3. Set 1 comprises the oldest NNE SSW and NW SE trending tensile lineaments, Set 2 is N S and WNW ESE and Set 3 is NE SW and ENE WSW.
Geological and structural investigations were conducted in the fieldwork for identifying the major geological units and structural configurations in the study area.
A DGSD inventory was compiled by visual interpretation of high-resolution images, and field surveys were conducted to clarify the geological structures associated with DGSDs and major rockslide-avalanches.
The main geological structures retained here are as follows: (i) the main sedimentary beddings of the Rhine Graben and (ii) major petrographic transitions in the granite, which are supposed to be horizontal.
We are interfering with major geological forces.
We are looking at the geological structures of nature laid bare in the hot sun.
The topographic and gravity measurements enabled the scientists to peer at the geological structures below Tharsis.
