Sentence examples for uppermost zone from inspiring English sources

The uppermost zone has a characteristic dark colour, making for a striking profile and giving clear evidence of the decomposition of grass roots and of the wet-dry cycles over millennia that are essential to the formation of these soils.

The uppermost zone of the target aquifer was characterised by oxygen- and nitrate-reducing conditions, with mixed iron- to sulphate-reducing conditions dominant in the lower zone, along with indications of methanogenesis.

The loss of IGC between 1998 and 2008 occurred especially within the quechua (−45%) – often seen as the uppermost zone for cereal cultivation – and the suni (−16%) transitional zone.

Moreover, lunate shapes are located at Chontal where currents emanated from two valleys with different directions, and in lower zones of Cusua, but are absent in the uppermost zones where currents were more likely unidirectional.

This depth segment lies between the uppermost conductive zone (0- to 1.0-km depth) and the underlying convective zone (1.0- to 3.5-km depth).

U3 is capped by an overlying uppermost coal zone (U3.CZ).

Why do Siganus stay on the barrens instead of moving to relatively close areas with larger algal biomass, and why they do not graze the uppermost sublittoral zone?

Mechanically, we expect Pb-humate to be selectively re-entrained to the air from such soil due to its low mass density (in contrast, primary Pb phases, e.g., PbO or PbSO4, are much denser than common soil components) and its concentration in the uppermost soil zone.

This leads to an episode of local, transient hypoxia in the uppermost endometrial zones during menstruation.

Lower porosity, finer-grained volcanic, and sedimentary deposits resides in the uppermost crater zones and forms a low permeability cap.

Consequently, it is believed that there is an episode of transient hypoxia in the uppermost endometrial zones.