Sentence examples for margin of the shield from inspiring English sources

At the eastern margin of the shield there are remnants of a still older surface, of middle or late Mesozoic age (i.e., formed about 175 to 66 million years ago), which has been warped by subsequent earth movements and now disappears beneath the sediments of the Great Artesian and similar basins.

(2) Middle Triassic uplift removed the Palaeozoic cover along the south-western margin of the shield, leading to formation of a Triassic peneplain with a predominantly flat relief followed by deposition of Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic rocks.

Far beyond the margins of the shields, extensive plains have evolved on soft sedimentary rocks.

Cambay Basin is a narrow, NNW SSE trending intracratonic rift basin, formed at the end of cretaceous which is located on western margin of the Indian shield (Fig. 1).

This paper presents a detailed analysis of high-resolution facies architecture of glaciolacustrine ice-margin deposits, which formed at the southern margin of the Scandinavian ice shield.

Tetraploids are distributed all over the Alps in the previously glaciated area, including the population near the eastern margin of the former ice-shield.

Are the areas outside or near the margin of the previous ice-shield refugias of diploid sexual populations or is a colonization scenario by tetraploid apomicts more likely?

It lies between the west and northwestern margin of Indian shield between latitudes 21°N to 25°N and longitudes 71°15′E to 73°30′E in the states of Gujarat and Rajasthan.

The location of the bone in the body (along the bottom margin of the torso and partially shielded by the legs), and the fact that it was among the most massive in the skeleton, indicates that the Allosaurus was being scavenged.

South of the shield margin, where soil cover is thicker, the predominantly coniferous northern boreal forest gives way to a mixed forest belt known as the southern boreal forest that includes stands of broad-leaved trees such as trembling aspen.

The second stripe should border the edge of the shield.