Facies is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Facies meaning
- General appearance.
- Facial features, like an expression or complexion, typical for patients having certain diseases or conditions.
- A body of rock with specified characteristics reflecting its formation, composition, age, and fossil content.
Using Facies
- The main meaning on this page is: General appearance. | Facial features, like an expression or complexion, typical for patients having certain diseases or conditions. | A body of rock with specified characteristics reflecting its formation, composition, age, and fossil content.
- In the example corpus, facies often appears in combinations such as: marine facies, facies are, shallower facies.
Context around Facies
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Facies
- In this selection, "facies" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, marine, shallower, metamorphic, prosecution, shifts and eventually stand out and add context to how "facies" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include assemblage metamorphic facies and because she facies prosecution for. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "facies" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with facies
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Garnets are also useful in defining metamorphic facies of rocks. (10 words)
This value is unknown (e.g. temperature, rainfall, piezometric level, geological facies, etc.). (13 words)
With regression, shallower facies are deposited on top of deeper facies, a situation called offlap. (15 words)
Some evidence also suggests the presence of predatory trigonotarbid arachnoids and myriapods in Late Silurian facies. citation Predatory invertebrates would indicate that simple food webs were in place that included non-predatory prey animals. (34 words)
If a migrant is apprehended at the border, she cannot just leave, because she facies prosecution for illegal entry, but she can apply for “voluntary departure” or withdraw her request for admission. (32 words)
For an overview over facies shifts and the relations in the sedimentary rock record by which they can be recognized, see Reading (1996), pp. 22–33. (26 words)
Example sentences (12)
In the case of transgression, deeper marine facies are deposited over shallower facies, a succession called onlap.
With regression, shallower facies are deposited on top of deeper facies, a situation called offlap.
If a migrant is apprehended at the border, she cannot just leave, because she facies prosecution for illegal entry, but she can apply for “voluntary departure” or withdraw her request for admission.
Coral for example only lives in warm and shallow marine environments and fossils of coral are thus typical for shallow marine facies.
For an overview over facies shifts and the relations in the sedimentary rock record by which they can be recognized, see Reading (1996), pp. 22–33.
Garnets are also useful in defining metamorphic facies of rocks.
In the subsurface, such geographic shifts of sedimentary environments of the past are recorded in shifts in sedimentary facies.
Metamorphic rocks make up a large part of the Earth 's crust and are classified by texture and by chemical and mineral assemblage ( metamorphic facies ).
Note the nonabraded, although slightly broken, conodont elements of the high-energy oolitic marine facies of the Deer Valley Member.
On the other hand, when a rock layer with a certain age is followed laterally, the lithology (the type of rock) and facies eventually change.
Some evidence also suggests the presence of predatory trigonotarbid arachnoids and myriapods in Late Silurian facies. citation Predatory invertebrates would indicate that simple food webs were in place that included non-predatory prey animals.
This value is unknown (e.g. temperature, rainfall, piezometric level, geological facies, etc.).
Common combinations with facies
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: