Sentence examples for thin and discontinuous from inspiring English sources

The external skeleton is thin and discontinuous.

Glacial deposits on the shield tend to be thin and discontinuous.

The lower Cenozoic successions are characterised by thin and discontinuous marine sandstones, tuff and limestones, reflecting regional subsidence of the Chatham Rise, concomitant with pulsed volcanic activity, which persisted intermittently throughout the late Cenozoic.

The results show that a synergistic improvement of photocurrent density (1.14 matm−2 at 1.23 V vs RHE) is induced by Sn-doping and slight surface modification of hematite with thin and discontinuous NiO film.

The top most aquitard is relatively thin and discontinuous along the section BB′.

Though this huge sandy deposit is separated in some places by thin and discontinuous clay and silty clay layers, it may be considered as a single aquifer system.

The third example concerns the conditional deletion of AP-2alpha (Le-AP-2alpha), which leads to a variable thickness of corneal epithelium (2 to 10 cell layers), and a thinner and discontinuous basement membrane [39].

The cell membrane of these cells was thinner and discontinuous.

Indeed, thinner and discontinuous bone trabeculae are seen in AIA rabbits when compared with healthy ones.

In addition, the morphology of residual muscle spindles was profoundly altered and displayed thinner and discontinuous collagen IV staining, which are signs of outer capsule degeneration (cf. Maier, 1997; Elsohemy et al, 2009).

In addition the EM findings of small vacuoles in the cytoplasm of smooth muscle cells in the media from DSLD aorta and of thinner and discontinuous membrane of these cells appeared to be similar to ultrastructural changes observed in endothelial cells in aortas from patients with Marfan's syndrome and Erdheim's disease and are indicative of increased cell permeability [ 26].