Sentence examples for rock shell from inspiring English sources
Bringing together virtually all geologic aspects of Earth's outer rock shell (the lithosphere) into a unifying theory called plate tectonics has had a profound impact on the scientific understanding of our dynamic planet.
We sequenced the mitogenome of the rock shell, Thais clavigera (Gastropoda: Muricidae), an intertidal snail, using long PCR with primers designed on the basis of expressed sequence tags.
Some are supported by a stalk, but most are attached directly to the substrate, which may be a rock, shell, coral, seaweed, mangrove root, dock, piling, or ship's hull.
After removal of visible external materials (rock, shell, etc).
Residues of antibacterial substances were detected in common octopus, european cuttlefish and red-mouthed rock shell.
Cloning of the RXR homolog from T. clavigera revealed that the ligand-binding domain of rock shell RXR was very similar to that of vertebrate RXR and that it was bound to both 9- cis RA and organotins (Nishikawa et al. 2004).
Outstanding among these marine shells are various members of the families Cypraeidae (cowrie shells), Conidae (cone shells), Volutidae (volute shells), and Muricidae (rock shells).
By contrast, the rarest and costliest volutes, cones, cowries, and rock shells live only in deep water and are obtained by dredging or straining or through the efforts of fishermen who haul them in with their catch.
No more than a small rise of volcanic rock, shells and sand lying all by its lonesome off Long Island in the Bahamas, Little Deadman's Cay would seem well cast either as a paradise or prison with palm trees.
They reported that organotins (both TBT and TPhT) bind the human retinoid X receptors (hRXRs) with high affinity and that injection of 9- cis retinoic acid (RA), the natural ligand of hRXRs, into female rock shells (T. clavigera) induced the development of imposex.
Following removal of its massive Jupiter-like gas/ice envelope, the rocky-Earth, compressed to about 66%% of present diameter, was completely covered by a closed continental-rock shell.
