Sentence examples for thick mantle from inspiring English sources

French onion soup, with a thick mantle of Swiss cheese, had far too much salt in its broth.

Most Dicksoniaceae species are notable for their trunklike stems, which are rhizomes modified for vertical growth and embedded in a thick mantle of adventitious roots.

It is customary to assume that Pluto, like the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn, has an inner rocky core surrounded by a thick mantle of water ice.

Venus is covered with a thick mantle of perpetual clouds with a dense atmosphere made up mostly of carbon dioxide laced with sulfuric acid.

The model used to explain this discontinuity and the nature of volcanic materials envisions a crust of lower density siliceous and aluminous material, such as granite, floating on a thick mantle made of denser siliceous and ferromagnesian material, principally basalt dunite eclogite.

The advances and retreats of glaciers during the Pleistocene Epoch (about 2,600,000 to 11,700 years ago) deposited a thick mantle of boulder clays and morainic sands and gravels into which the sinuous Moscow River cut its wide valley in successive stages, marked by four corresponding levels.

Relatively thick mantles of volcanic ash from the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Mazama 7600 years ago have undergone slight-to-moderate weathering, giving rise to Andisols (Andosols).

This gravitational "step" marks a relatively narrow strip between thin mantle beneath the eastern part of the Eurasian continent (east of the Urals) and thick and dense mantle to the west (Fig. 1).

Freeze thaw tests with a granule mantle of 0.5, 2.5 and 5 cm thick demonstrate that the heave amount on the coarse part is greatly reduced by the 5-cm-thick mantle, and that the coarse part always heaves later but subsides earlier than the fine.

In the middle latitudes of this region a metres-thick mantle, possibly comprising an ice-dust admixture, has been reported; the occurrence of putative periglacial landforms such as flat-floored (thermokarst-like) depressions, small-sized (possibly thermal-contraction) polygons and polygon trough/junction pits also has been noted.

A dearth of craters in the 100 500 m diameter range, however, also necessitates erosion of a thicker mantle layer.