Sentence examples for reef complexes from inspiring English sources

Devonian reef complexes also occur along the Canadian Rocky Mountains.

Complex facies changes are known, and the Canning Basin reef complexes show every detail of forereef, reef, and backreef structures exposed by modern erosion.

Although the Permian-Triassic extinction of rugose and tabulate corals resulted in an absence of Lower Triassic corals, small reeflike mounds of early Middle Triassic age were succeeded later in Middle Triassic times by more extensive reef complexes that retained some Permian biotic elements.

Late Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) reef complexes, more modern in aspect and dominated for the first time by scleractinian (stony) corals and calcareous pharetronid sponges, occur as thick sequences in the Dachstein and Steinplatte regions of Austria and Germany, as well as in Iran and the Himalayas.

With these correlations, acoustic data could provide useful information about recognizing the depositional textures of reef complexes, which is crucial to predict facies of the reef complexes based on seismic data.

The late Miocene reef complexes of the Lorca Basin in southeastern Spain are composed of five mixed siliciclastic/carbonate units, middle Tortonian to early Messinian in age.

Great Barrier Reef, complex of coral reefs, shoals, and islets in the Pacific Ocean off the northeastern coast of Australia and the longest and largest reef complex in the world.

These plants and algae trap and stabilize sediment, and their accumulations are also accreted to the whole reef complex.

WHAT -- 4-bedroom condominium HOW MUCH -- $589,000 Owners in this 42-unit Candle Reef complex on the east end of St. Croix have access to several quiet beaches.

The Thornton Reef Complex outside Chicago is an example of a well-zoned Wenlock complex more than 1 km (0.6 mile) in diameter.

New Jersey, which has the East Coast's largest artificial reef complex, stopped accepting subway cars in 2003 after environmentalists raised concerns that the cars might leach high levels of asbestos as they disintegrated.