Sentence examples for uppermost layer of the from inspiring English sources

Soil, the biologically active, porous medium that has developed in the uppermost layer of the Earth's crust.

Blistering usually takes place within the uppermost layer of the skin (epidermis), producing fragile, easily broken blisters; subepidermal blisters are tenser and are more difficult to break.

Cosmogenic nuclides are produced when secondary cosmic rays interact with the very uppermost layer of the Earth's surface.

The drifters were designed to follow the uppermost layer of the sea with a thickness of about 2 m.

Deconstruction of the filters revealed that the main clogging mechanism was organic matter build-up at the uppermost layer of the filters.

Lipids in the uppermost layer of the skin, the stratum corneum (SC), play an important role in the skin barrier properties.

This paper presents the results of the part of a research programme aiming at geotechnically characterizing the uppermost layer of this volcaniclastic sequence, particularly focusing on its collapse potential, shear behaviour and the influence of microstructure on these behaviours.

The uppermost layers of the Earth's atmosphere absorb particular radiowaves and stop astronomers looking at things in these wavelengths.

The uppermost layers of the present atmosphere are still very hot and might have been much hotter early in Earth's history.

In all land vertebrates the uppermost layers of the skin are dead, but the dermis is richly endowed with living tissue that can respond rapidly to change.

The uppermost layers of the lithostratigraphic sequence reflect the transformation of local conditions in response to recent (20th century) drainage operations.