Sentence examples for the former extent from inspiring English sources

These large-scale polygons in the nonpermafrost areas are excellent evidence of the former extent of permafrost and ice wedges in the past glacial period.

This glacial history is partly explained through consideration of climatic-forcing (particularly moisture-availability, solar insolation and albedo), though topographic-controls upon the former extent and dynamics of glaciers are also considered, as are topographic-controls upon moraine deposition and preservation.

In addition, early Holocene global sea level rose 60 m, between 9,650 and 5,000 BC, as a result of glacial melt water release (Smith et al. 2011), converting the wide coastal plain of eastern China into a much steeper coastline fringed with many offshore islands (see Fig. 1 for the former extent of this coastal plain).

The former extent of the Bolckow, Vaughan property at the Eston Sheet and Galvanizing Works beside the River Tees Dockyard is still marked by boundary stones on Smiths Dock Road, Middlesbrough.

The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) was implemented in 2000 (USACE, S.F.R.O 2010a) with the explicit goal of restoring some of the Everglades' former extent and ecosystem functioning.

Immediately after Tricamarum, Justinian hastened to proclaim the recovery of Africa: The emperor was determined to restore the province to its former extent and prosperity indeed, in the words of J.B. Bury, he intended "to wipe out all traces of the Vandal conquest, as if it had never been, and to restore the conditions which had existed before the coming of Geiseric".

Along the Vaal River, South Africa, mining and agriculture have reduced natural riparian habitat to ca. 9% of its former extent in the Northern Cape Province.

Coastal dune habitats lost about three-quarters of their former extent during the last century in Italy [ 47, 49, 50].

"Outside of Everglades National Park, pine rocklands habitat in our region is down to only one percent of its former extent — but what little remains still provides habitat for many species now federally listed as endangered or threatened with extinction," Matthew Schwartz, executive director of South Florida Wildlands Association, said in a statement.

Internal and external work are "not independent additive quantities," he says, because the former to some extent generates the latter.

The structural model contains two aspects of information: path coefficient and R 2. The former shows the extent of the mutual influence among variables; the latter indicates the degree of interpretation of endogenous variables.