Sentence examples for surrounding zones from inspiring English sources

Contact aureoles the surrounding zones of rock that become altered or metamorphosed vary in thickness from several centimetres (around tabular bodies such as dikes and thin sills) to several kilometres (around large granitic intrusions).

During times of low sea level (repeatedly during the glacial stages of the past 1.7 million years), the entire platform and surrounding zones would have been dry ground – so that astronauts would have seen a much larger island occupying all of the image.

From areas 8, 46, 47, the samples were taken from zones where the pictorial pellicle was slightly bulging compared with surrounding zones.

The dynamic analysis in FLAC3D is based on the explicit finite difference scheme to solve the full equations of motion, using lumped grid point masses derived from the real density of surrounding zones [11].

Nowadays, there is a challenging endeavor of defining the reservoir rock regions that have similar petrophysical and geological properties and also consistently different from surrounding zones for better characterization, modeling and simulation of shaly reservoirs.

These areas, which are characterized by abnormal emissions, are usually defined as "features": in particular, a feature is a small, discrete area or an installation where CH4 emissions significantly differ from the surrounding zones.

As separation or width increases, the overlap between the heat-transfer volumes (subsection "Surrounding zone width") of adjacent doublets decreases.

Therefore, we consider a box-shaped fractured zone (zone 5) with a width of 1 m, a permeability of 10 −11 m 2 and a porosity of 0.5 % which is embedded in the surrounding zone (zone 4).

To this end, the starting model from subsection "Model geometry and properties" is extended to accommodate three fractured zones (zone 5) encompassed by one common surrounding zone (zone 4) in the reservoir.

To see how much volume is being accessed by the circulating water, we tested different widths of the surrounding zone (zone 4), ranging from 31 to 311 m.

A marginal increase in energy production is observed as the heat-transfer volumes (portion of reservoir volume accessible by the circulating fluids (Brown et al. 1999)) increase with surrounding zone width.