Sentence examples for widespread sheet from inspiring English sources

The Nitosols reveal a process of severe topsoil loss, due to widespread sheet erosion from deforestation and shifting cultivation.

Typical features common to both systems include low infiltration capacity of burnt catchments; widespread sheet erosion and levee lined rills on steep upper hillslopes; and severe channel erosion initiated in response to convergent flow in previously un-scoured drainage lines.

Only tsunamis could deposit such widespread sand sheets, say Jankaew and Monecke.

We mapped periglacial landforms at Kapp Linné, central Svalbard, where we chose six widespread landforms (solifluction sheet, nivation hollow, palsa and peat in beach ridge depressions, raised marine beach ridge, and exposed bedrock ridge) as study sites.

The ITC found a "widespread pattern" of sheets made in India, Pakistan and China with "grossly inflated" thread counts.

Widespread continental ice sheets had developed in Gondwana to the point that their expansion and contraction began to drive the rise and fall of sea level, producing cyclic depositions that characterize the later part of the Carboniferous.

The report points out other events that may occur over short time spans, such as destabilization of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and widespread loss of biodiversity.

A major hurdle to the widespread application of light sheet microscopy is the lack of versatile and non-intrusive sample holders that are adaptable to a variety of biological samples for live imaging.

A high-pressure ridge brings relatively warm southerly winds over the western flank of the ice sheet causing widespread surface melting [ Nghiem et al., 2012].

Internal deformation in the eastern thrust sheets included widespread early layer-parallel shortening (LPS), followed by concentration of slip onto weak fault zones.

In 2009 the International Union of Geological Sciences IUGSS) officially ratified the decision to set the beginning of the Quaternary at 2,588,000 years ago, a time when rock strata show extensive evidence of widespread expansion of ice sheets over the northern continents and the beginning of an era of dramatic climatic and oceanographic change.