stratigraphic section in a sentence

Examples

1. The northern Gulf of Mexico slope includes a stratigraphic section more than 10 km ( 6 mi ) thick and has been profoundly influenced by salt movement.
2. The mineralogy of a komatiite varies systematically through the typical stratigraphic section of a komatiite flow and reflects magmatic processes which komatiites are susceptible to during their eruption and cooling.
3. In the United States, biochronology is widely used as a synonym for biostratigraphy, but in Canada and Europe the term is reserved for biochronology that is not tied to a particular stratigraphic section.
4. The Sadler effect provides a powerful framework for understanding how information extracted from any given stratigraphic section differs from what should be expected under constant conditions-that is, it provides a null hypothesis for analysing stratigraphy.
5. Similarly, it is conjectured that the current position of the zinc and lead lodes at Broken Hill may not necessarily be related to their original position along the bedding planes ( S0 ), or vertically within the stratigraphic section.
6. Generalized stratigraphic sections from the region indicate Gasconadian age strata take between 20 and 40 percent the Lower Ordovician section; 20 percent in Franklin Mtns outside of El Paso, Texas; 40 percent in the Caballo Mtns further north in southern New Mexico.
7. Possibly inspired by geologist John Whitehurst's 1782 diagrams of stratigraphic sections in the Matlock area of Derbyshire, in 1785 Watson presented Whitehurst with a diagrammatic'Tablet','A Section of a Mountain in Derbyshire', made from samples of the rocks themselves.
8. Since oldest rocks are deposited first and lowest in a stratigraphic section, whether one is discussing the rock record is usually clear in context . ( A fossil or feature present in the " upper Phanerozoic " eonothem ( strata ) would be discussed as being dated within the " later Phanerozoic " eon, whereas something found in the middle Phanerozoic could be discussing a layer, stage or the relative time .)