surficial
IPA: sˈɝfˈɪʃʌɫ
adjective
- (geology, astronomy) Of or pertaining to the surface of something, particularly the surface of the Earth.
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Examples of "surficial" in Sentences
- Surficial geology and geomorphology.
- May portray bedrock or surficial units, or both.
- Complete the surficial geology mapping of Alberta.
- His Masters work focused on surficial geologic processes.
- Surficial geology in this region contains a number of fossils.
- This formation is an integral part of the surficial aquifer system.
- In the summer, surficial flow is often absent from wide, sandy, lower reaches.
- Patchy arctic wetlands are particularly sensitive to permafrost degradation that can link surficial waters to the supra-permafrost groundwater system.
- Seasonal soil freezing and thawing are the driving forces for many surficial processes that occur in areas with permafrost or seasonally frozen soils.
- These kinds of solutions may not work everywhere because infiltration is influenced by surficial geology, but it's an approach worth considering when cottages are built.
- Robert won by correctly spelling "surficial," defined as "of or relating to the boundary or portion of the boundary of a three-dimensional region and especially that of the earth."
- Justification for establishment includes an outstanding example of traditional human interaction with the environment; the area also clearly exemplifies ongoing surficial geological processes.
- In Montana, Ecoregion 42 has been divided into eleven level IV ecoregions (42b, 42d, and 42i through 42q) that separate areas of different terrain, land use, surficial deposits, soils, potential natural vegetation, and/or climate.
- In Montana, 17 level IV ecoregions (43a through 43e, 43g, 43k through 43q, and 43s through 43v) have been recognized; they separate areas of distinct terrain, land use, soil, surficial material, climate, and/or potential natural vegetation.
- These surficial water regulation systems are obtained by modelling the land itself around the body of the landslide large ground ditches in the case of incoherent material landslides rpar; or by means of flexible suitably placed drainage pipes able to collect the water.
- It's sort of like reading a not-so-original HPL or REH pastiche ... the signature elements are all there (and you can show off the completed checklist to prove it!), but it's focusing so much on that surficial stuff that it ends up not capturing/expanding upon any of the subtleties or the "feel" of the original.
- And there's been more from the latest Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, papers on the "rauisuchian" archosaur Batrachotomus kupferzellensis; the ontogeny of Stegosaurus; ontogenetic and taxonomic implications of pattern and transition of surficial bone texture of the centrosaurine frill; and Adeopapposaurus, a new prosauropod dinosaur from Argentina.
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