Sentence examples for wedge top from inspiring English sources

The wedge top may be flat, especially if thawing has lowered the upper surface of the wedge at some time in the past.

In addition, accretionary wedge includes wedge top basin or piggy back basin that extends parallel to foredeep.

The apex of the Pliocene Pleistocene megafan situated in the present-day wedge top (Subandean Zone) has been cut by an erosion surface, the western part of which has been uplifted of ∼500 m along the frontal thrust, forming a poorly dissected plateau, the Mera plateau.

Robert Carter, the chef at one my favorite American restaurants, the Peninsula Grill in Charleston, S.C., features an ice-cold wedge topped with delicious buttermilk dressing and sprinkled with equally delicious bacon "jerky" (bacon that has been slowly rendered, rather than fried quickly), and I am not the only customer who orders it repeatedly.

This one baked into a solid yet still creamy cake that I sliced and served in wobbling wedges topped with its own ambrosial caramel sauce.

The wedge-top basin was filled by a quartz-rich sandstone-dominated succession of Andean provenance.

A wedge-top depozone formed over this former foredeep, bounded by the late-middle to late Eocene thrust front.

However, closing basins, such as foreland, forearc, retroarc, piggy-back and wedge-top basins may provide excellent snapshots of orogenic sediment fluxes.

Further reactivation of compression led to backthrusting of the wedge-top clastic succession in the late Eocene, and to subsequent foreland propagation of the deformation, manifested by a sequence of low angle thrusts that affected the foredeep.

An up to 1250 m-thick clastic succession, the upper Tortonian Terravecchia Formation (TRV), has been analysed in detail in the middle late Miocene Scillato wedge-top Basin grown above an already deformed tectonic stack in the northern Sicilian fold-and-thrust belt.

The results of this study elucidate the influence of foredeep-margin and wedge-top tectonic deformation and topography on turbidite-system and associated reservoir character and distribution across the Molasse foreland basin system in Austria, and can be applied to oil and gas exploration in analogous, structurally complex settings.