Sentence examples for proportion of rock from inspiring English sources
The terrain may have a high proportion of rock outcrop, standing trees, fallen logs, and various forms of biotic disturbance.
"The big problem in making Mercury is how do you get a planet that has such a huge iron core and such a small proportion of rock?
All three have about 1.6 to 1.7 times the density of water, so they must contain about the same proportion of rock in their interiors.
Rock outcrops had a positive effect on pumas, which used this habitat frequently, and negative effect on culpeos, whose presence decreased slightly at sites with the highest proportion of rock outcrops inside the park and sharply at sites with presence of rock outcrops outside the park.
This include, for instance, the extent of brittle failure, the onset of a given strain criterion, and the proportion of rock and depth of area that reach the yield criterion.
Those additional properties include a planet's mass, density, and proportion of rock and gas just the sort of information modelers need to test their theories of planet formation convincingly.
Fe and Mn make up considerable proportion of rocks and sediments; thus the reducible fractions show higher Fe and Mn concentrations.
Promotional appearances for her blockbuster memoir have been heavily attended, taking on the proportions of rock concerts.
Note that moss cover categories do not sum to 100% as quadrats contain small proportions of rock, snow, ice, water and lichens (data not shown), which did not change significantly over time at either site.
In a complementary study, planetary scientists Terrence Johnson of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and Jonathan Lunine of the University of Arizona, Tucson, used Cassini data to calculate the relative proportions of rock and ice inside Phoebe.
The grey debris consists of bedrock that failed during the first rock avalanche, while the predominantly orange debris is composed of a higher proportion of waste rock, which failed as the second rock avalanche.
