Sentence examples for weathering proceeds from inspiring English sources

As with landforms and plant communities, it was assumed that soils evolve toward a steady state, as weathering proceeds and characteristic soil profiles emerge for each region.

Throughout the soils along the catena, δ56Fe signatures of both bulk Fe and HCl-extracted Fe become isotopically lighter as the extent of weathering proceeds.

As weathering proceeds and the soil becomes finer, the in situ specific volume and the location of the normal compression and critical state lines move upwards in the volumetric plane.

It is proposed that this evolution in joint pattern and appearance results from increased cracking along grain boundaries and thermal expansion of individual mineral grains, and within-grain micro-cracking as weathering proceeds.

In view of development of cavernous structures, it has been demonstrated that the frequency of caverns increases as weathering proceeds in the early stages [34].

Leaching under weathering conditions proceeds discontinuously and tends to decrease with duration of exposure.

She takes a broadly chronological approach, starting by revealing that "the earliest forms of written language among the Anglo-Saxons, derived from runes used in Scandinavia and Frisia, included symbols of weather", and proceeding to Zadie Smith and beyond.

The results show that soil reddening, magnetic susceptibility and in particular frequency-dependent susceptibility generally increase with proceeding weathering.

Because weathering of carbonate bedrock proceeds at comparably low rates and because most of the released C is considered to be leached out of the soil, the abiotic component of the soil CO2 efflux is generally presumed as marginal (Kuzyakov 2006).

After a one-day weather delay, the convention proceeds according to its latest script: delivering Romney the presidential nomination he fought years to achieve, calling the party to unify around him and setting the stage for the final stretch of the hotly contested campaign to unseat President Barack Obama.

Polar journeys are inevitably stories of monotony — the endless treks over unchanging landscape, the interminable periods of downtime waiting against the weather — but "The White Darkness" proceeds aplomb, with a style that conveys the immensity of Antarctica and the difficulty of Worsley's journeys without ever bogging down.