How do you use Microfossils in a sentence? See 7 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Microfossils meaning
plural of microfossil
Using Microfossils
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of microfossil
- In the example corpus, microfossils often appears in combinations such as: microfossils microfossils.
Context around Microfossils
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 1 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Microfossils
- In this selection, "microfossils" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, preserving, 200 and may stand out and add context to how "microfossils" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include also the microfossils in it and at preserving microfossils here on. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "microfossils" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with microfossils
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I studied the characteristics of the sediment, the chemistry in the sediment and also the microfossils in it. (18 words)
However, microfossils such as stromatolites and oncolites prove that, in shallow marine environments at least, life did not suffer any perturbation. (21 words)
Microfossils are of critical importance as a reservoir of paleoclimate information, and are also commonly used by biostratigraphers to assist in the correlation of rock units. (26 words)
Microfossils Microfossils about 1 mm main Microfossil is a descriptive term applied to fossilized plants and animals whose size is just at or below the level at which the fossil can be analyzed by the naked eye. (37 words)
For many years, conodonts were known only from enigmatic tooth-like microfossils (200 micrometers to 5 millimeters in length citation ), which occur commonly, but not always in isolation, and were not associated with any other fossil. (36 words)
Microfossils may either be complete (or near-complete) organisms in themselves (such as the marine plankters foraminifera and coccolithophores ) or component parts (such as small teeth or spores ) of larger animals or plants. (33 words)
Example sentences (7)
Microfossils Microfossils about 1 mm main Microfossil is a descriptive term applied to fossilized plants and animals whose size is just at or below the level at which the fossil can be analyzed by the naked eye.
I studied the characteristics of the sediment, the chemistry in the sediment and also the microfossils in it.
It should be noted that the Jezero Crater which is almost 28-miles wide has sufficient deposits of minerals that are good at preserving microfossils here on Earth.
For many years, conodonts were known only from enigmatic tooth-like microfossils (200 micrometers to 5 millimeters in length citation ), which occur commonly, but not always in isolation, and were not associated with any other fossil.
However, microfossils such as stromatolites and oncolites prove that, in shallow marine environments at least, life did not suffer any perturbation.
Microfossils are of critical importance as a reservoir of paleoclimate information, and are also commonly used by biostratigraphers to assist in the correlation of rock units.
Microfossils may either be complete (or near-complete) organisms in themselves (such as the marine plankters foraminifera and coccolithophores ) or component parts (such as small teeth or spores ) of larger animals or plants.
Common combinations with microfossils
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: