Sentence examples for shoreline environment from inspiring English sources

These sandstones exhibit a complex shoreline environment and are occasionally mixed with carbonate stringers.

Dr. Roberts said that the encasing rocks contain traces of ancient ripples and evidence of desiccation cracks suggesting that these animals were nesting in a dynamic shoreline environment along the edge of a river with fluctuating climatic conditions.

Temporal and spatial variations in the beach and shoreline environment are produced by a combination of highly complex interactions between the influences of anthropogenic activities, and the initial morphodynamic state of the beach governed by natural processes, among them changes in water levels, tides, waves, currents, winds, and sediment supply.

A diverse fauna associated with detached algae has also been discovered in a deeper benthic community in an open shoreline environment, demonstrating that algae play an important role in the recruitment of marine invertebrates even after algal death and transport [ 67].

The fossils were found in sediment formed in shallow seas, and this find extends the record of life in shoreline or beach environments by 200 million years.

"Its published oil spill response plan gives no guarantee that an oil spill in the Bight would not reach the shoreline and damage the environment," Hopkins said.

Third, we identified event deposits as tsunami deposits, based on their sedimentary features and origin, sedimentary environment, paleo-shoreline, and landowner interviews.

The "syn-rift" Middle Jurassic Krossfjord and Fensfjord formations, Troll Field, northern North Sea contain a complex distribution of wave- and tide-dominated deltaic, shoreline and shelf depositional environments of varying reservoir potential.

While deeper waters around 40 km from the shoreline are generally the optimal environment, some species appear to prefer very shallow water.

Given this evolutionary scenario, it is easy to imagine how the ancestors of dry-land terrestrial snail-feeding lineages like Trypetoptera Tetanocera phyllophora and T. kerteszi used the shoreline as a stepping-stone environment facilitating a gradual movement to dry-land habitats where they became generalist predators of land snails.

For this purpose, georectified aerial photographs spanning the period 1956 2008 were compared in a GIS environment to calculate rates of shoreline change.