Sentence examples for marine and continental from inspiring English sources
The Carboniferous Period was a time of highly variable depositional settings, characterized by both shallow marine and continental environments.
In the Antarctic both marine and continental Devonian strata occur, the latter rich in fossil fishes of European genera.
The shift in dominance between marine and continental air masses, however, spawns furious weather in some regions.
This oulja will host high-level marine deposits characterized by a mixture of marine and continental fauna.
The Amazon coastal zone is characterized by high levels of hydrodynamic energy influenced by both marine and continental processes.
They include a lower marine and continental series with a calcareous Middle Devonian section and an Upper Devonian section of reefs and shales rich in ammonites and trilobites.
Total organic carbon (TOC) and biogenic silica (opal) content, elemental (C/N) and isotopic (δ13C, δ15N) composition of organic matter and the content of lipid biomarkers derived from both marine and terrestrial sources constrain relative contributions from marine productivity and continental erosion to surface sediments throughout coastal SE Alaska (54°N to 61°N).
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCurrent research interests include the Neogene stratigraphy, paleoceanography, and depositional history of marine basins and continental margins of the Pacific Ocean with a focus on the California borderland and Gulf of California.
Comparison with available climate models, Greenland ice cores, North Atlantic marine sequences and continental records from Central and Northern Europe and the whole Mediterranean region underlines the distinctive character of the hydrological changes occurred in inner Iberia throughout the Early Holocene.
Each sub-basin has its own separate integrity and contains a distinct shallowing upward depositional cycle with its own tripartite assembling of marine, paralic and continental deposits.
Clinoforms are ubiquitous deltaic, shallow-marine and continental-margin depositional morphologies, occurring over a range of spatial scales (1 104 m in height).
