Sentence examples for matrix of rock from inspiring English sources

The horseshoe crab is in a matrix of rock that includes the fossilized imprint of the animal's final tracks.

Granger dated samples of the cementlike matrix of rock and sand surrounding Little Foot to 4.17 million years ago, plus or minus about 350,000 years.

There are two major approaches in modeling fluid flow in fractured rocks: the discrete fracture network (DFN) model which is a special case of DFM models where fractures and matrix of rock mass are treated explicitly.

The rock contains water-filled pore spaces, and, when the spaces are connected, the water is able to flow through the matrix of the rock.

In the present paper, the seismic response of a large underground hydropower plant, which is located in southeast China, is investigated and a high performance recursive procedure based on the damping-solvent extraction method (DSE) is proposed for the study of the dynamic stiffness matrix of unbounded rock medium.

The mass of pore water present in the rock matrix of a crystalline rock mass is significant and its influence on fracture groundwater and future deep repositories needs to be understood.

At Baijiantan, Yeyagou and Dagun Devonian gabbros and one group of volcanic rocks (type I lava) generally crop out as blocks in a matrix of ultramafic rocks and/or mudstone.

The large orange-yellow olivines are common in the matrix of other rocks of the Dhofar 489 group (Takeda et al. 2006, 2007, 2008).

When hydrocarbon charges from the hydrocarbon kitchen arrive a reservoir, those gain access via a network of pores embedded in the matrix of the rocks or via fractures or faults, usually those bearing the lowest capillary entry pressure.

We do not know the origin of the preferred c-axis orientation in the fine-grained part, which may have been inherited from that in calcite aggregates constituting the matrix of wall rocks.

The low expansions recorded were associated with relict strained quartz and possibly with fine-grained phlogopite in the matrix of the rocks, which have acted as silica sources for the development of secondary silicates of variable composition (±Ca ± Na ± K ± Mg ± Al) and microfissures as a result of the alkali silica reaction rather than the non-expansive dedolomitization process.