Sentence examples for sharp contacts from inspiring English sources

Such gradients illustrate the presence of sharp contacts between the subsurface causative features.

Here, the peak appearing at 1 G0, due to single gold atom contacts, is a sign of atomically sharp contacts.

Our results indicate that the formation of the Yamanlar caldera resulted from one major catastrophic eruption that generated several sustained pyroclastic density currents (PDCs) subdivided by fall deposits with sharp contacts.

Solutions are presented for the critical loads to initiate yielding and cracking at blunt contacts, as well as those to attain a prescribed plastic penetration depth and cause cracking from within the plastic zone at sharp contacts.

The team says that the flows must be relatively new because of the sharp contacts between the lava and the underlying rock distinct boundary lines that moonquakes and micrometeorite impacts would have eroded over time.

The deposits are characterised by a thickness as great as 40 cm, with variable locations of the areas of maximum accumulation (but often not next to the shoreline) and basal sharp contacts, frequent massive, normally graded or laminated layers and general landward fining of the tsunami deposit grain size.

We provide a comprehensive description of the defect tolerance of sodium-borosilicate glasses upon sharp contact loading.

The dyke is 8 cm thick and shows blackwall margins that are in sharp contact with the host serpentinized harzburgites.

There is often a sharp contact among gas-, oil-, and water-saturated zones of the reservoir, which are referred to as the oil water contact (OWC), gas-oil contact (GOC), or gas water contact (GWC).

The base of the sandstones has a sharp contact with the semi-deep lake shale with a relatively flat contact surface, whereas the top of the sandstones is in contact with thin turbidite sandstone (Fig. 2a, b).

Molds of large trees, preserved within the dunes, and a sharp contact of steep slip-face dune foresets on palaeosols evoke the encroachment of landward-advancing precipitation ridges into a forested landscape.