Sentence examples for upper carapace from inspiring English sources

Another similar event is the 2004 failure of the Tsatichhu landslide dam in Bhutan, which failed by a combination of dam face saturation and progressive seepage through the upper Carapace facies (Dunning et al. 2006).

Box turtles have a high, rounded upper shell (carapace), a flattened bottom shell (plastron) with a transverse hinge, and ligamentous connections (instead of the bony bridge typical of most turtles) between plastron and carapace.

The upper shell (carapace) of Blanding's turtle averages about 20 cm (8 inches) in length; it is smooth, rounded, and elongate with yellow markings on a blackish ground colour.

Several decorator crabs use portions of the model for concealment by picking up algae and sponges and placing them on the carapace (upper shell) to cover their own coloration; the algae and sponges continue to live as if in their normal habitat.

The head and carapace (upper shell) range from a yellow-orange to a reddish-brown, while the plastron (underside) is typically pale yellow.

In later, full-shelled species of turtles, those ribs are even wider and have fused with each other and certain bones in the shoulder girdle to form a carapace, or upper shell.

"We needed something to create tension in some areas of the carapace [the upper shell] and movement in other areas," Mettee said.

The upper shell is called a carapace, and the lower a plastron.

The textural characteristics of the materials used in these experiments are typical of landslide dams formed by rock avalanche processes where fragmentation and pulverization of the rock materials cause seepage processes to develop in the upper blocky carapace layer.

The wood turtle reaches a carapace length of 14-20 cm, its defining characteristic being the pyramidal pattern on its upper shell.

The carapace (upper body shield) is usually broad.