Sentence examples for thick sequences from inspiring English sources

As the continents rifted and ruptured, thick sequences of marine sediments accumulated in large linear troughs along their margins.

Very thick sequences of Devonian volcanics are known, for example, in the Sierra Nevada of California.

Its Mississippian through Pennsylvanian rocks, on the other hand, consist of thick sequences of shales and sandstones deposited rapidly in a subsiding trough.

Seismological observations show that many destructive earthquakes nucleate within, or propagate through, thick sequences of carbonates and evaporites.

The geology in the area consists of thick sequences of sandstone and shale beds of the Crocker Formation.

Wilson was impressed with the similarity of thick sequences of Cambrian-Ordovician marine sediments to those of modern continental shelves.

Below the Sublett Mountains the Phosphoria Formation, a basal phosphorite overlain by a thick sequence of chert and cherty sandstone, reaches its greatest thickness.

Local strata can be divided into a thick sequence of resistant sandstones and a thick sequence of low resistance, calcareous siltstones and shales with interbedded limestones.

The sea deposited a thick sequence of sediments containing fossils that indicate water temperatures at least as warm as those of the region today.

Upstream of this narrow constriction, recurrent backflooding is discussed resulting in a thick sequence of layered to laminated slackwater couplets.

One of these basins, the Malatya basin, contains a thick sequence (up to 2000 m) of alluvial and lacustrine deposits.