Sentence examples for western strata from inspiring English sources

The benthic communities in western strata were altered following disposal operations.

Results revealed that sediments in the western strata had significantly higher silt/clay content in the 2000 survey when compared to baseline sediments, while sediments east of the disposal zone were similar to baseline.

Much of the initial work by geologists in trying to correlate rocks and develop a relative geologic time scale was conducted on Jurassic strata in western Europe.

An increase in mineral crystallization temperatures of ~ 13 ± 3 °C is preserved in paleosol profiles (ancient soils) within a stratigraphic interval of < 40 m thickness in Permo-Carboniferous strata in western equatorial Pangea (modern north-central Texas).

Based on a shallow roadway with weakly cemented soft strata in western China, this paper studies the range and degree of plastic zones in soft strata roadways with weak cementation.

John Grant writes in his book Masters of Animation that Fritz the Cat was "the breakthrough movie that opened brand new vistas to the commercial animator in the United States", presenting an "almost disturbingly accurate" portrayal "of a particular stratum of Western society during a particular era, as such it has dated very well".

Early subdivision of the Triassic was based primarily on the extensive and highly fossiliferous Alpine (western Tethyan) sequence of marine strata exposed in Austria, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland.

The boundaries of the Tertiary were originally only qualitatively estimated on the basis of the percentages of living species of (primarily) mollusks in the succession of marine strata in the western European basins (see above).

The Middle Jurassic Shaximiao Formation encompasses tens of meters of thick lowstand meandering valley (LMV) strata in the western Sichuan foreland basin.

Pipiringos and O'Sullivan [53] recognized several major and regionally widespread unconformities within Triassic and Jurassic strata of the western United States.

Degradational/aggradational cycles seen in Upper Triassic strata of the western United States may be more numerous and complex than often appreciated.