Sentence examples for recent layers from inspiring English sources

Over time, sediments naturally compact and consolidate — or dewater — with recent layers, which are wetter, losing volume more rapidly.

The most recent layers are thick and airy, while the older layers are thin and dense, which means that to drill down through the ice is to descend backward in time, at first gradually and then much more rapidly.

This means the removal of subsequent alterations and additions where possible, figuring out what was done and when, how much of the original decorations lurk beneath more recent layers and which treatment along a given room's timeline should be emphasized.

The present owners, who granted this reporter entry only on condition that they not be identified, bought the town house nine months ago and renovated it for the second time in five years, relining fireplaces, redoing doors with French polish and stripping off recent layers of paint.

Major parts of the study area are dominated by granite gneisses and recent layers of alluvium as evident from lithology map of the area.

The increasing amounts of Fe inorganic compounds in the more recent layers indicate a strong weathering and degradation, probably as a consequence of the intensification of the agricultural use.

In the more recent layered wax paintings, opposite forces also work simultaneously.

(Mr. Kelly's recent, layered relief paintings take this idea a step further).

But the modernist rhetoric of aestheticized emotion didn't eclipse what came before; it's just the most recent layer.

Capping the higher, eastern part of the range is a more recent layer of Cenozoic andesites and basalts.

Virtually all Thule artifacts discovered at the farm were at the most recent layer of human occupation, indicating that migrating native hunters used the structure as a caribou hunting camp after the Europeans left.