Sentence examples for marine shelf from inspiring English sources

Bradoriids appear to have occupied well-oxygenated marine shelf facies.

The siliciclastic sediments accumulated in low energy open shallow marine shelf.

They tend to be closely associated with shallow marine shelf carbonates and fine (typically rich in iron oxide) mudrocks.

The organic matter content is richer in the Miocene sediments of the Karacaören Formation marine shelf than in the sediments of the Hafik Formation terrestrial.

The origin of nodular cherts has long been debated, but most are produced by the secondary replacement of the carbonate minerals and fossils within shallow marine shelf deposits.

They were deposited on warm marine shelf margins receiving high wave energy similar to the present-day Bahama Shelf and northern Red Sea.

However, this was only the initial stage of development of the Tyee margin and it was followed by a period of basin-filling when repeated fluvial and shallow marine shelf-transit cycles fed well-organized turbidite channels on the slope as well as Tyee Basin floor fans.

The characteristics of the major sedimentary environments and their deposits in the geologic record, including alluvial fans, braided and meandering rivers, aeolian systems, deltas, open coasts, barred coasts, marine shelves, and deep-water systems.

At the late stage of rifting, the weakened activity of faulting made it easy to form open marine shelves.

Open marine shelves locate above the storm wave base in high-energy environment, and accumulate medium-thick bedded dolomite, thin-bedded siliceous dolomite and dolomite containing nodular cherts.

The spatial structure of Macrostrat permits geographic ranges to be measured as the proportion of preserved marine sediments, which is a reflection of the area of shallow marine shelves that is occupied by a given genus (Fig. 1B; see Materials and Methods).