Sentence examples for marine shells from inspiring English sources
The marine shells disappear in the succeeding shales, to be replaced occasionally by nonmarine bivalves.
These pinhead-sized insects appear as raised brown spots resembling marine shells.
Jade beads carved in various animal shapes adorned their waists, and obsidian-inlaid marine shells covered their mouths.
The rocks and fossils suggest alternating open-sea (the limestone and shales with marine shells) and terrestrial conditions (the coal).
Traditionally, western Great Basin groups engaged in trade involving shells (including marine shells), tanned hides, baskets, and foodstuffs.
Above the coal, a limestone or a claystone (shale or mudstone) with marine shells is often found.
Trumpet of clay formed into the shape of a conch or other marine shell.
The one in the tomb was coated with red pigment and adorned with hundreds of jade ornaments, the teeth inlaid with white jade or marine shell.
They are best suited to digging relatively small-sized loose material such as sand and gravel, marine shell deposits, mill tailings, and unconsolidated overburden.
"Acoustic Analysis of the Chavín Pututus (Strombus galeatus marine shell trumpets)" Invited paper presented at 2nd Pan American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics, Cancún, México, November 2010.
In addition to the burnt remains of hut structures, Kharaneh IV exhibits a diverse material culture inventory, with an abundance of marine shell beads, worked bone, ground stone, ochre, botanical and faunal material, and microlithic chipped stone tools.
