Sentence examples for surface of the shelf from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, the mass breakout of icebergs from Larsen Ice Shelf between 1995 and 2002, though generally ascribed to global warming, is thought to have occurred because summer meltwater on the surface of the shelf filled nearby crevasses.

"Strong westerlies go up over the chain of the peninsula mountains and these winds descend, they warm up, melting the surface of the shelves on the eastern side.

Along that part of the peninsula, temperatures have risen 4.5 degrees in five decades, and hundreds of small ponds of meltwater have formed on the surface of the Larsen shelf and others nearby.

In the E13.5 mouse palatal epithelium, expression of Etv5 is strong on the oral surface of the palatal shelf and overlaps to some extent with that of the FGF signaling antagonist Spry2 [77].

Measure the actual height of the cabinet opening (from the surface of the bottom shelf).

These are less likely to stick to the surface of the freezer shelf.

In the mid- and posterior regions of the secondary palate of Irf6R84C/R84C mice, Tgfb3 expression was drastically reduced with only small patches remaining in the adherent epithelium between the nasal surface of the palatal shelves and the lateral surface of the tongue (Fig.  5H and K).

Further west, the surface of the Penmarc'h rocky shelf was tilted southeastward by the brittle reactivation of the LTF, and dissected by a horst-graben network post-Oligocene in age.

In short, the kind of sediment that covers the surface of a continental shelf is determined by the interplay among the tectonic setting, the size of the rivers that empty into it (size based on how much sediment they carry), and the wave energy that affects it, just as is the case with continental margins in general.

Organisms are abundant in surface sediments of the continental shelf and in deeper waters, with a great diversity found in or on sediments.

Still the process continues, albeit slowly, as sediments are brought across the shelf break by winnowing of the shelf surface and by advection.