Sentence examples for reef body from inspiring English sources
An on-site comparison is made on the reef body shape and landform of the Yongshu Atoll in the South China Sea.
The resedimentation of the reef body after several large hiatuses changed from lagoon facies to inner and outer reef-flat facies.
Eleven holes at three sites with maximum depth of 245 m have been drilled on and near Challenger mound, and core sections penetrating a thick coral reef body were recovered.
The results of engineering geological drilling show that since the Miocene the Yongshu Reef development has passed through 9 sedimentary cycles which merge into 6 large evolutionary stages (separated by 5 hiatuses of the reef body).
The slumped fragments are also recognized as reef bodies with some syn-sedimentary tectonic influence and progressive increase in a tectonic influence, during the Early Maastrichtian age.
This study poses the question if not more of the apparently homogenous "reef bodies" of other settings and geological ages may possibly also show internal high-frequency cycles.
The chapter focuses on the morphology, architecture, and composition of Holocene reef bodies; the structure and stratigraphy of Pleistocene barrier reefs and atolls; and both emergent and submerged reef terraces.
These giant oil and gas fields have diverse types of reservoirs and are mainly distributed in paleo-uplifts, slope zones, and platform margin reef-shoal bodies.
For Russell Reichelt of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, a federal body charged with protecting it, the "burning question" is whether this is climate change in action.An Australian government report to the UN in January said that protecting the reef would take a "concerted international effort" to reduce climate change.
On average, eye diameter of nocturnal species is about 1.4 times larger than that of diurnal reef teleosts for given body mass.
