Sentence examples for rather than debris from inspiring English sources

The uniform size of the small gravel at the surface suggests material carried from the crater rim by water rather than debris blown out of nearby smaller impact craters.

It was observed that the composition of the deposits relates to degradation of anthropogenic debris and constructional material through cycles of wetting/drying and microbial and faunal activity, rather than fire/destruction debris.

It is really just a question of botanical aesthetics, and when it's robust bling rather than the debris from last night's takeout, then bling is better.

That mission had revealed that flat plains cover much of the planet, and a detailed analysis of the Messenger images showed that the plains were formed from lava flows rather than impact debris.

The tombs KV63, KV62 and KV55 are dug into the actual wadi bedrock rather than the debris, showing that the then level of the valley was 5 m below its present level.

However, Yang et al. [23] suggested that PAHs associate with the low density fraction dominated by plants- and coal-derived debris rather than particle size.

Rather than cleaning up the debris, the aim is to reduce the need for new satellites to be placed into orbit.

In contrast, cells in photodamaged skin are often in contact with fragmented collagen or amorphous debris rather than intact collagen, have a collapsed/elongated shape, and have a lower amount of actin.

This superposition approach treats separately the interaction forces that arise from the strain-rate dependent strength and the inertia of the debris, rather than combining them into a single drag force.

Kirshner cautions that a more detailed ultraviolet spectrum--planned for later this month--is needed to confirm that the brightening is due to the debris, rather than an ill-placed star.

Subsequent outpourings of pyroclastic material from the breach left by the landslide consisted mainly of new magmatic debris rather than fragments of preexisting volcanic rocks.