Sentence examples for suite of rocks from inspiring English sources
Consequently, other evidence about a rock or suite of rocks is needed to determine what the isochron is actually dating.
Some of the critical field evidence supporting the presence of subduction some two billion years ago comes from a suite of rocks in the Canadian Shield known as the Trans-Hudson belt.
In practice, rock samples weighing several kilograms each are collected from a suite of rocks that are believed to have been part of a single homogeneous liquid prior to solidification.
Under these conditions the rocks recrystallize, or metamorphose, to form a suite of rocks known as blueschists, named for the diagnostic blue mineral called glaucophane, which is stable only at the high pressures and low temperatures found in subduction zones.
This suite of rocks represents the boninitic component of the Kizildag ophiolite that developed from shallow and greater degrees of melting of hydrous and highly refractory peridotites beneath the extended forearc environment.
"This is the first really reliable age for this suite of rocks," Borg says.
We also performed a suite of rock magnetic experiments designed to track time-transgressive changes in the sedimentary record.
A suite of rock, vegetation, and morphometric land surface characteristic variables was measured at each of 65 locations across the study area, which included an associated piedmont and playa.
In the present study we use a suite of rock site records, well distributed with respect to magnitude and source distance, from crustal, subduction interface and slab earthquakes to evaluate the response spectral amplification ratio for soft soil sites.
We also conducted a suite of rock magnetic experiments and an observation with scanning electron microscope, to characterize rock magnetic properties of the samples.
In this study, we conducted a suite of rock-magnetic experiments for 1037 single zircon crystals sampled from the Nakagawa River, which crosses the Tanzawa tonalitic pluton in central Japan.
