Sentence examples for types of boulder from inspiring English sources

Moreover, centralizing the flow pattern in the channel among several types of boulder placements greatly expanded the habitat for P. nigra.

Coral reef coastlines in tropical environments present an advantage, as the carbonate make up of RPCBs offers good potential for age-dating that may be impossible with other types of boulder lithology.

It is believed that dams of Sub-type I composed of boulders and blocks are less likely to fail than those of Sub-type II containing unconsolidated or highly permeable debris (Costa and Schuster 1988; Korup and Tweed 2007).

We stop to scramble among large pinon pine trees and lichen-covered granite rocks and to visit Devil's Garden, a grouping of several types of cactus interspersed with boulders.

Bottom substratum types were determined by estimating the percentage of boulder, cobble, or fine sediment present, following the description of Hoff and Stevens [16].

This approach may provide invaluable data where the finer-grained nature of sedimentation means that other types of information such as coarse boulder berms are lacking.

The characteristics of boulder problems depend largely on the type of rock being climbed.

Boulder distribution, preferential orientation and numerical simulation of boulder transport are discussed.

EPSTEIN--Robert Joseph, of Boulder, CO died suddenly on October 11th.

We therefore considered the reliability of predictions of boulder size.

To test the model that microhabitat use of boulder edges reflects their larger gap sizes (relative to boulder centres), artificial boulders were constructed with the underside surface either flat, or with a gap underneath mimicking the mean size of the gap normally found only under boulder edges (when their average shape is considered among numerous naturally-occurring boulders).