Sentence examples for rapid burial from inspiring English sources
Their extraordinary preservation, usually in sandstone or shale, was probably the result of rapid burial and protection by smothering sediment.
Rapid burial of the remains of the single-celled planktonic plants and animals within fine-grained sediments effectively preserved them.
Rocks belonging to medium-pressure facies series generally follow P-T-t paths that are clockwise loops on a pressure-temperature diagram, reflecting rapid burial during a collisional event followed by heating and relatively rapid uplift.
Conditions for preservation were unusually favourable at these sites because ashfalls from nearby volcanoes and fluctuations of the lake led to rapid burial of the hominin and associated remains.
In a rare event about 300 million years ago, a major earthquake caused an ancient forest of 1,000 ha (4 sq mi) to drop below sea level and undergo rapid burial.
Metamorphic rocks exposed in former collision zones may thus have followed a variety of pressure-temperature-time paths, but paths showing rapid burial followed by heating and subsequent unroofing at moderate to high temperatures have been reported from many mountain belts around the world.
The good news is that safer behaviour is spreading in the way people greet each other, and in rapid burials that shun rituals of touching and kissing.The plan will also fail without more treatment centres.
Moreover, the taphonomic processes involved during rapid burials of even the best-preserved specimens may impact soft-tissue anatomy and posture, via twisting, separation, or compaction in unclear ways [103].
The rapid mass burial of the victims and the continuing presence of insurgents in the area have hampered investigations.
Accelerated soil erosion and rapid alluvial burial of the palaeowetland between AD 1200 and AD 1500 represent an environmental tipping point with important repercussions for present day land degradation and resource restraints.
"The rapid and deep burial of the Dreadnoughtus type specimen accounts for its extraordinary completeness.
