Sentence examples for pattern of ridges from inspiring English sources

The Pacific ocean floor at this site was generated during seafloor spreading from a pattern of ridges and plates that had existed for some unknown period of time.

The human brain is immediately recognizable by its cortex (meaning bark in Latin), the prominent outer layer of tissue, with its characteristic pattern of ridges and furrows, which sits atop the deep structures.

In half of the paintings the canvas has been elaborately folded and pressed, retaining a loosely geometric pattern of ridges and wrinkles that is accented by two or three spray-painted colors and pulled taut by a stretcher.

Lace bug (family Tingidae), any of about 800 species of insects (order Heteroptera) in which the adult, usually less than 5 mm (0.2 inch) long, has a lacelike pattern of ridges and membranous areas on its wings and upper body surface.

And a morphology transition between the pattern of single points (convex bumps) and the pattern of ridges (labyrinth) is observed.

Surface runoff and erosion may only be explained by the spatial pattern of ridges, gullies, and rills.

The discovery that no two people had exactly the same pattern of ridge characteristics on their fingertips seemed to offer a solution.

The pattern of ridge, slough, and tree islands in the Everglades ensured that fires would burn and leave a mosaic of burned and non-burned vegetation in the landscape (Gunderson and Snyder1994).

In fact, the tiny features have inspired "riblets," patterns of ridges used to manipulate the flow at the surface.

Its color is roughly the same as the cap, although it tends to be slightly darker in the upper portion, where it is reticulate (covered with a net-like patterns of ridges).

Similar to R. brevipes in overall morphology, it has somewhat larger spores (9 12 by 7 8.5 µm) with a surface ornamentation featuring prominent warts interconnected by a zebra-like patterns of ridges.