Sentence examples for remains shell from inspiring English sources

An erosional boundary separates the peat from a carbonate sand layer (0.52 0.40 m b.s., layer A in Fig. 9) containing reworked peat remains, shell debris and two 4 cm-fragments of Diploria sp. (1563 1395 cal BP).

Archaeologists have found pottery, animal bones, human remains, shell fragments, mortars and pestles and arrowheads at the site.

For practical reasons, these theories have been based on the appearance and physical structure of walrus feeding patches on the sea-floor [ 7], food remains (shells) left on the sea bottom after a walrus feed [ 6], and on observations of animals in captivity [ 8].

Monrovia today remains a shell of a city.

But the pyramid-shaped, 105-story Ryugyong Hotel remains a shell nearly 25 years after construction began.

And the mini-mart remains a shell of its former self, with building work yet to begin.

There remains a shell of empire today, in fact, like sun-baked ruins overgrown with grass, e.g. the mad king (a purple-faced Pelini raging on the sideline), the fallen hero (Ndamukong Suh stomping opponents in the N.F.L. as penalty flags rain down around him).

"Only a skeleton of this creature remains, like shells of sea creatures that lived many, many years ago".

In the final sale of the day, devoted to works of art bearing inscriptions, one of the most curious lots is a group of "oracle bones": these carved skeletal remains and shells, dated from the thirteenth to the eleventh century B.C., represent some of the earliest surviving examples of writing in China.

When the trigger is pulled, the shot explodes out of the weapon, but the casing — the shell — remains inside the gun.

In contrast to water, where the shell freezes to crystalline ice I h, the ethanol shell remains amorphous, as shown by the broad methyl torsion at 275 cm−1 in both the reference spectrum and that of CuH.