Sentence examples for marginal slope from inspiring English sources

Here we present a comparison of platform margin types from different stratigraphic positions in the Late Devonian reef complex of the Canning Basin, Western Australia and Middle and Late Devonian margin to marginal slope successions in Guilin, South China.

Therefore, the elevation of the footwall was high and the marginal slope was quite steep.

Six types of carbonate platform marginal slope have been identified in the Cambrian-Ordovician of Tarim Basin.

Both logarithmic curves passing through the median values of each bin show almost the same marginal slope for every bin on the horizontal axis.

This is supported by coeval carbonates from the marginal slope setting, which had a higher interaction with open ocean water and do not record a comparable shift in δ13Ccarb throughout the sequence.

Other hypotheses can be formulated and tested such as the genetic control of the reaction norm to each environmental factor, interaction effects between environmental factors on the phenotype, and the marginal slope of the reaction norm with respect to each environmental factor or the gradient of the reaction norm itself.

Elsewhere in the West, people have gobbled up so much critical habitat, especially in the fertile valley bottoms, that many predators have either disappeared or are forced to carve out a living on the steep, more marginal slopes of the mountains.

For centuries, large areas were cultivated to feed the local population, with highly marginal slopes being tilled at times of heavy demographic pressure, using the shifting agriculture system.

Lemma 1. is the minimum permissible energy-utility slope (marginal utility for energy consumed) for the set of application configurations that minimizes.

The reasons are a lack of land except for marginal parcels with slopes and wetlands, and tear-down-and-rebuild projects that challenge planning and zoning concepts.

The benefits of reforesting steeply sloping marginal farmland to reduce soil loss and flood damage, and to increase biodiversity, are well known (Davis et al. [2009]).