Sentence examples for shallow portion from inspiring English sources

The floor of the Yellow Sea is a geologically unique, shallow portion of the continental shelf that was submerged after the last ice age (i.e., roughly within the past 10,000 years).

The focal mechanisms also change in the shallow portion (Fig. 7).

Neither historical quakes nor the Tohoku quake has broken the offshore, shallow portion of the fault there.

For sites of high-concrete dams, most shear waves are nearly vertical, incident to the shallow portion of the foundation.

The stress ratio is close to unity (0.78) in the shallow portion, indicating that the compressional tectonic stress is predominant.

It then propagated toward the Futagawa fault at depth and subsequently toward the shallow portion of the Hinagu fault.

Pool and riffle, deep and shallow portions of an undulating stream bed.

In shallow lakes or shallow portions of large lakes, the thermocline will eventually intercept the lake bottom so that no hypolimnion exists.

In preindustrial times the major reservoirs of carbon were the deep and shallow portions of the ocean; the soil, detritus, and biota of the land; and the atmosphere.

Although this complex ocean drilling project is ongoing, fault rocks have been obtained from the shallow portions of the megasplay fault and plate-boundary thrust (Figure 1b).

Furthermore, we constrained the shallow portions of the fault planes by referring to the observed surface ruptures of the main shock.