Sentence examples for surface trace from inspiring English sources

Black curves denote the surface trace of mapped faults.

These features constitute the surface trace of dikes (underground fractures filled with magma).

In the centre of the transect, cores GS7 and GS10 penetrate the surface trace of the palaeochannel (Figs. 5, 7).

A view looking southeast along the surface trace of the San Andreas fault in the Carrizo Plain.

The surface trace and the activity of the Shanchiao normal fault have also been inferred and subsequently defined from stratigraphic data derived from these cores.

We mapped the surface trace of the fault rupture for about 5 km on the west bank of the Khunar River, through Balakot and into the Sarash Valley where it apparently ends.

These channel deposits underlie and extend beyond the margins of the ~5 km wide surface trace of the Ghaggar–Hakra palaeochannel, as seen for example in cores GS13 and 14 (Fig. 5 and Supplementary Fig. 2) and inferred from geophysical data44.

Beneath the surface trace of the palaeochannel, in cores GS7 and GS10, the grey fluvial sands are overlain by an ~8 m-thick fining-up succession that shows upward transition from brown very fine sand and silt into reddish-brown silty clay (Figs. 5 7).

The Earth's magnetic field is the only surface trace of the working of the geodynamo and is therefore a very important tool for our understanding of the Earth's deep interior, especially its variation with geologic time.

It is now understood to have been the source of more than ten large earthquakes in the last 2000 years (spaced on average about 150 years apart!), but it also exhibits significant slow fault creep all along its surface trace, including at the Cal Memorial stadium.

Red lines denote GSF surface trace.