Sentence examples for were emplaced from inspiring English sources
verb
To assign a position to something, or to locate something at a particular place
Sills are absent in the Drakensberg Group lavas, suggesting that they were emplaced prior to the main phase of flood volcanism or that emplacement within the lavas was prevented.
Thus, the deposits were emplaced as medium-gravity crudes, which later became immobilized by degradation in the reservoir.
The acidic units were emplaced as lava domes and widespread tabular lava flows.
This suggests that the propagation of the lava involved 7 discrete lobes that were emplaced successively.
The world's largest porphyry Cu-Mo deposits were emplaced during basin inversion.
The kimberlites were emplaced into 2.6 Ga Archean granitic rocks of the Yellowknife Supergroup.
The allochthonous masses were emplaced by a combined gravitational and tectonic mechanism.
Twelve collection boreholes were emplaced perpendicular to the injection holes and were both horizontal and inclined.
These deposits were emplaced by pyroclastic density currents that travelled in excess of 80 km from source22, and resulted in formation of the co-ignimbrite plume(s 15.
The emplacement of compound pahoehoe flows is related to low volume eruptions, while sheet lavas were emplaced during sustained eruptions.
Allochthonous (transported) continental blocks thus were emplaced in the Cordillera Oriental of Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela at the end of the Silurian Period (about 419 million years ago).
