bedding plane in a sentence
Examples
- ""'Helminthopsis " "'is the ichnogenus of a type of trace fossil that is found preserved on the bedding planes of fine-grained sedimentary rocks.
- The reef extends from Tennessee to Quebec and bedding planes now dip slightly to the north, revealing sequences of horizons in exposed rock.
- Narrow quartz veins, found along fractures in the diorite and along bedding planes in the shale, contain most of the high grade gold ore.
- It is thought that the Chuckanut Formation shoreline was of riverine environments combined with a large scale " bedding plane " of material deposition.
- When the ore forms a blanketlike body along the bedding plane of the rock, it is commonly called a "'manto ore deposit " '.
- Pleistocene-to Holocene-age landslide deposits are widespread throughout the Simi quadrangle, especially in the finer grained Tertiary sedimentary units where bedding planes are dip slopes.
- Tam Cung is a large phreatic fissure cave that developed in the bedding planes of the limestone dividing the fissure cave into three chambers.
- The increases in pore water pressure and in formation stress combine and affect weaknesses near the hydraulic fracture, like natural fractures, joints, and bedding planes.
- These planes or weakened areas allow the intrusion of a thin sheet-like body of magma paralleling the existing bedding planes, concordant fracture zone, or foliations.
- Most of these were existing landslides that had been re-initiated and the largest of the slides were either bedding plane failures along the coastal bluffs.