Sentences with phrase «significant volume of material»

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These significant depths suggest that Ceres» subsurface is no more than 40 percent ice by volume, and the rest may be a mixture of rock and low - density materials such as salts or chemical compounds called clathrates.

These characteristics included morphometric, geographic, and historical properties of study reservoirs (i.e., depth, residence time, volume, surface area, age, and latitude), biologically significant water column solute concentrations (i.e., NO3 — , total phosphorus, and dissolved organic carbon), and metrics of ecosystem primary productivity (i.e., trophic status and mean or modeled surface water chlorophyll a concentrations; see the supplemental materials for a complete list of the tested variables).