Sentence examples for relicts of a from inspiring English sources

In western Zambia they are overlain by younger sandy deposits, relicts of a once more-extensive Kalahari desert.

As the biologist Christopher Norment writes, in his 2014 book, "Relicts of a Beautiful Sea: Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World," the Southern Nevada Water Authority has proposed pumping groundwater that feeds into the Death Valley ecosystem.

Understanding the hydrology of soils that have been drained is necessary for wetland restoration and in determining whether redoximorphic features are relicts of a former hydrologic regime.

Thick soils on uplands of the Edwards Plateau are interpreted to be relicts of a formerly more extensive soil cover that was eroded during the late Pleistocene to middle Holocene.

The current distribution of C. "chasiquensis" appear to be a relicts of a more extended historical distribution in the Argentinean Pampas in the Late Pleistocene, with a perceptible population decline at the beginning of the Holocene.

The limestones at the top of the Serra do Tonã, which are also found in inselbergs in the Jatobá Basin, are relicts of a once extensive cover of Aptian carbonate deposits, now restricted because of uplifting and erosion events from the Late Cretaceous to the Cenozoic.

RASP analyses also suggested that the current disjunct distribution of the P. amabilis complex might reflect vicariant relicts of an ancestral population (Fig.  3).

However, we cannot rule out the possibility that these fossil pollen could be relicts of an extinct lineage originated elsewhere, although the continuous fossil record in areas surrounding the ancient Tethys Sea supports the expansion of ancestral Rhizophoras into the AEP through the Tethys.

The role of the Widow Bogart, relict of a myth, was not the lifetime part she wanted, although the relative honour of his Hollywood meant more to her as decades passed.

This tiny stand of 100 Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis) trees turned out to be the last relict of a plant that once formed vast forests covering not only Australia, but New Zealand and Antarctica in the time of the dinosaurs.

The ancient age of the clone implies it originated during the Pleistocene and is a relict of a vanished vegetation community.