Sentence examples for shape of a dome from inspiring English sources

These are layers of porous rocks topped by a cap of impermeable rock, usually in the shape of a dome.

In Episode 2, about domes, we learn that Hadrian, emperor of ancient Rome, rebuilt the Pantheon in the shape of a dome to prove Rome's transcendent authority with the gods.

A curved osteotome and an angled scale guide showing the amount of correction in degrees can be used; with a transverse incision just below the TT, cortical holes are drilled with the opening facing distally and in the shape of a dome.

49 Chests are distributed over 40 patches (in the shape of a dome) that are randomly distributed in a meadow.

If this doesn't grab you, try "Noodlin" (the titles are a little cutesy): two flat overlapping forms, suggestive of piano tops seen from above, one in green, the other in sour yellow with a blue appendage in the shape of a flattened dome, are tipped at a 45-degree angle on a divided ground of two browns.

Fig. 5. Schematic diagram for the assumed shape of a lava dome.

The experiment of muon radiography carried out at Mt. Asama volcano (Tanaka et al., 2007c) allowed the reconstruction of the density map of the cone and detection of a dense region that corresponds to the position and shape of a lava dome created during the last eruption in 2004.

Mauna Loa is a typical shield volcano in form, taking the shape of a long, broad dome extending down to the ocean floor whose slopes are about 12° at their steepest, a consequence of its extremely fluid lava.

Thus, a 1-ml intraocular bubble of air inside an eye tends to assume the shape of a spherical cap (a dome shape with flat bottom).

Shape a dome of wet sand inside the smaller of the two circles, spraying the sand with water to keep it moist.

A massive central lava dome emplaced from 1980 to 1987 occupies the center of the crater, and the glacier formed in the shape of a horseshoe around the dome, with two terminal moraines on the eastern and western sides.