encrustation

How To Use encrustation In A Sentence

• Slight variations in the diameter along the length of some filaments reflect either the degree of silica encrustation or septa in the original filament.
• I couldn't get over the stunning encrustation of the Munchen by soft corals at this depth, suggesting that the tide runs fast and hard over the wreck.
• It is not in question in this case as to whether that encrustation should be cut off.
• There is no clear evidence to differentiate encrustation prior to molting from postmortem encrustation on the external surface of carapaces.
• It is typically seen in collections as colorful botryoidal, reniform, or stalactitic masses or in crystalline encrustations.
• The wine industry is the only source of tartrates available to commerce and the crystalline encrustations left inside fermentation vessels are therefore regularly scraped off for eventual commercial use after purification.
• And then, far from its original bed in the rock, amid the jerkings of a cockling sea, the mass breaks through the supporting float, and settles far beneath, amid the green and silent twilight of the bottom, where its mosses and lichens yield their place to stony encrustations of deep purple, and to miniature thickets of arboraceous zoöphites. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
• It contained nothing but sand and encrustation, so I left perplexed.
• Although the quartz encrustation protects the calcite from dissolving, it obscures the twinned nature of the crystals, which is revealed by mechanical removal of the crust.
• In all of these fossils, the symbiotic colony covers the entire external surface of a gastropod shell with a thick encrustation.