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Sentences with dextral

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  • The Murzinka-Adui Metamorphic Complex to the SE of the Salda Complex is separated from the latter by the Petrokamensk Arc and the Sisert dextral strike-slip fault.
  • In plan view, several specimens show minor changes in the generally linear orientation with either a sinistral or a dextral turn.
  • This tendency towards dextrality was explored further by examining a museum collection of extremities of walrus skeletons.
  • Overall, then, there is no trend from dextrality to sinistrality.
  • The preference for dextral threads certainly goes back to the unrecorded past.
  • It is interesting to speculate why most screw threads are dextral and only a relatively small number are sinistral threads.
  • The outer shell surface of both sinistrally coiled species of Crassimarginata is ornamented by distinct costae, but the dextrally coiled shells of Yukonoconcha seem to be smooth.
  • It is possible that other commissural systems that transmit motor commands and thus influence dextrality may also manifest sexual orientation-related differences.
  • Sinistral individuals in normally dextral populations often deviate slightly in shell form from wild-type dextrals, perhaps implying that the left-handed condition has small deleterious side effects.
  • Clockwise rotation of the trend of volcanic ridges is associated with dextrally offset, sinistrally slipping transforms, while anticlockwise rotation is associated with sinistrally offset, dextrally slipping transforms.
  • In the northern Musgrave Block the Petermann Orogeny generated large-scale east-west-trending shear zones that accommodated dextral strike-slip and north- and south-directed thrusting.
  • Commonly there is a partitioning of sinistral and dextral criteria on alternate horizons, but horizons occur where both senses coexist.
  • Thus, the gerontic aperture of these dextrally coiled shells is situated on the left side in apertural view.
  • Both species described here are sinistrally coiled, but a similar pattern of ornamentation is present on two Pennsylvanian species that are dextrally coiled.
  • Although sinistral individuals are known in many normally dextral species, left-handedness as a characteristic of species is rare in most gastropod clades.
  • In fact, Aleksandrowski et al proposed that the complex was originally contiguous with the Northern Phyllite Zone in Germany and that dextral strike-slip fault movement translated this region southeastward to its present position.
  • Zhang noted that both sinistral and dextral Pa and Pb elements differed entirely.
  • Rather, one form of the gene, which we may call D for dextral, may code for right-handedness, while the other allele, which we may call C for chance, leaves the direction of handedness to chance.
  • But when they were actively seeking out shellfish using their favoured flipper-beating technique, the walruses used their right flipper - a trait known as dextrality - 89 per cent of the time.
  • It is commonly assumed that the Stanovoy sinistral shear zone and the Sakhalin-Hokkaido dextral shear zone in NE Asia are two conjugate strike-slip faults related to the India-Eurasia collision.
  • Well, that is dextral, associated with dexterity.
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