"tiny" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The tiny fossils resemble filamentous colonies of cells, but have evaded positive identification.
- These include chemical evidence of climatic change contained in tiny marine fossils, corals and ancient ice, along with fossilized pollen in lake sediments and annual growth rings in trees.
- Proponents of the theory say that the tiny oceanic fossils, known as diatoms, could have lived in a shallow inland sea during an ice-free period before they were carried onto the mountains by glacial activity.
- One sample from New Zealand is the mineral garnet; sand from an island off the coast of Okinawa is made of tiny, star-shaped fossils.
- Microscopic or very tiny fossils are called "microfossils"; while larger, macroscopic fossils - such as those of seashells and mammals - are called "macrofossils".
- Now that the sea creatures have been reduced to tiny fossils still found within garden rocks, the area has become a boon to apple growers, dairy farmers and bicyclists.
- Part of the evidence they cite for this hypothesis is that the sediments contain tiny marine fossils; however, such fossils can be moved by the wind, just like sand.
- The authors have essentially performed a CAT scan of these tiny fossils, except they use energies high enough to fry human tissues.
- Small shelly fossils (SSF), or small shelly fauna, are tiny fossils, many only a few millimetres long.
- Tommotian rocks house an enormous variety of tiny fossils (usually one to five millimeters in length) that cannot be allied with any modern group (Bengtson, 1977; Bengtson and Fletcher, 1983).
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