Sentences with phrase «fairy circle formation»

If the latter represents typical fairy circle formation, then circles must grow over several years, because their initial size would be much smaller than is typical for the area.
It seems more likely that the process seen in Fig. 10B is more than simple fairy circle formation, and that the eventual fate of this «new circle» area is not to be peppered with many tiny fairy circles, but to develop a few fairy circles within a patchy, rather disorganized matrix such as in Fig. 12A (see below) and in the ellipse in the upper right area Fig. 10B.

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They were absent from shifting dunes, gravel plains and rocky areas, confirming that a «settled sandiness» is a prerequisite to the formation of fairy circles.
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