transect in a sentence

Examples

1. Underwater surveyors focus chiefly on sessile invertebrates ( benthos ), along a transect line.
2. The normal faults have large offsets and transect the volcano into at least four sectors.
3. A transect spacing of 15 nautical miles ( 17.3 miles ) was used.
4. Samples were collected along transects established in potentially susceptible forests or outside the perimeters of nurseries.
5. Iona Island is a public access nature reserve, and the River Subdivision transects the island.
6. Many of the features of transect planning cannot be reproduced without a change to municipal ordinances.
7. Transects should not change from year to year and ideally should sample a variety of habitats.
8. The transect, by contrast, decreases the necessity for long-distance travel by any means.
9. This region contain a continuous transect from snow cap mountains, lowland wetlands to tropical marine environment.
10. The Cheyenne belt transects and cuts off the south edge of the older Trans-Hudson orogeny.