Sentence examples for transect from inspiring English sources

Rosetta's stone A glide-path to knowledge Stress test ReprintsIn March the programme's researchers laid dozens of devices along a transect running 400km north from the ice's edge.

They did so by towing a submersible called SeaBED, which belongs to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in Massachusetts, along a 30-nautical-mile transect of Marguerite Bay, off the west coast of the Antarctic peninsula.In this section Therapist-free therapy Who are you calling bird-brained?

Continuous lithosequences have parent materials whose properties vary gradually along a transect, the prototypical example being soils formed on loess deposits at increasing distances downwind from their alluvial source.

On a global scale, the integrated effects of climate can readily be seen along a transect from pole to Equator.

Soils formed at the dry southern end of the transect are shallow and rocky, whereas those at the humid northern end show well-developed B horizons and reddish colour.

The central measurements made on each transect were of the temperature and salinity of the water from the top to the bottom of the ocean; they were supplemented by measurements of nutrients and dissolved gases as well as by underwater acoustic profiles of currents below the ship.

They did a pedestrian-transect survey — noting discoveries along a set route — which revealed hundreds of plastic zip ties hidden in the grass.

A water-starved bantustan of a neighbour will fail to develop a viable economy, and will hence remain corrupt, donor-dependent and undemocratic; Israeli religious settlements transecting its territory will provide a focus of nationalist bitterness, fostering terrorism.

Attempts to define the open-water boundary between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans often rely on arbitrary latitude coordinates or linear transects; the two most common latitudinal boundaries are 65° N and the Arctic Circle (66°30′ N).

Many different kinds of measurements were made as part of WOCE, but the central field program around which they were organized was a series of hydrographic transects by ship that traversed the major ocean basins.

The protagonist of Irving's fourteenth and latest novel, "Avenue of Mysteries," a non-wrestling, pro-everything Mexican-American novelist named Juan Diego Guerrero, transects the club's gravitational field only briefly.