Sentence examples for surface stone from inspiring English sources

Chatoyance, the property of some minerals to exhibit a wavy, luminous band with a silky lustre, reminiscent of the eye of a cat, in the centre of a cabochon-cut (polished, with a rounded, unfaceted convex surface) stone.

Recent studies of surface stone architecture dating to this time period point to band- and supra-band investment in the planning and construction of elaborate hunting facilities.

Two alternative RUSLE approaches were also considered: i) the use of reduction coefficients for R and C factors and ii) the application of a soil erodibility reduction factor to take into account soil surface stone cover.

Within model errors, which largely are the result of analytical errors in measured 26Al and 10Be concentrations, all three competing theories of colluvial wash, upward displacement of stones, and cumulic pedogenesis are possible mechanisms for the formation of the surface stone pavement.

The labour required to clear the surface stones and debris from the soil, however, has made farming in Armenia difficult.

Previously found in Horse Point Plain, a protected area on St Helena Island in the South Atlantic, its habitat was damaged by the removal of nearly all shelter-providing surface stones for construction.

Last seen on St Helena Island in May 1967, the earwig had suffered for the removal of nearly all of the shelter providing surface stones in the territory, and increased predatory pressure.

We estimated percentage of surface covered by these functional types and by bedrock outcrops and loose surface stones.

The landscape structure variables bedrock, relative elevation, soil depth and surface stones explained most of the cover variance in the catchments.

It is not certain how the damage occurred but engineers suspect surface stones thrown up during Curiosity's rocket-powered landing may have struck sensor circuits and broken the wiring.

They are, at least on the surface, stone-cold opposites.