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Meaning of "dextral"
dextral (adjective) - referring to the right side of something, often used in scientific contexts such as biology or geology to describe directional orientation
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- Of or pertaining to the right side
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The dextral shell is conic and solid.
He stimulated my tricordial neuroglia sending an impulse to my upper dextral appendage.
There are both dextral and sinistral species.
Dextral shear criteria can be found in all of its formations.
The second dextral.
Dextral and sinistral.
This simple geographic arrangement has been disrupted by northwest trending dextral transcurrent faults.
Dextral transpression causes the inversion and closing of the intramontane basins.
Structures at the east margin of Table Mountain indicate both dextral and reverse slip.
Dextral shear deformation was locally associated with all of these thermal events.
The Tjörnes Fracture Zone connects these two rifts and accommodates a dextral transform motion.
It is a dextral intra-arc transform fault.
The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of a transform boundary exhibiting dextral motion.
The shell is dextral and relatively thick-walled.
Kinematic indicators point to predominantly dextral strike-slip movement.
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The dextral or sinistral shell is ovate-oblong and subventricose.
It is bounded by two major dextral strike-slip zones.
In its interior dextral and sinistral shearing interfere in a non-coaxial fashion.
Most gastropod species, and especially the marine species, have a dextral shell.
A dextral strike-slip fault can explain the relative displacements between the prisms.
All these observations invoke a shear zone underlying the anticline, probably with a dextral sense of shear.
Regional dextral strike-slip structures developed after the main episode of shortening and uptilting of strata.
The Tamlalt-Menhouhou gold deposit is crosscut by many shear faults compatible with a dextral shearing phase.
The TSZ is dominated by dextral oblique-slip shear fabrics.
The second main phase of movement was during the Carboniferous, this time with a dextral sense.
In an area of low dextral strain, there are proto-sheath folds related to Neoarchean thrusting.
The shear movement is sinistral for the northeast fractures and dextral for the north-northwest fractures.
Right, The normally dextral ( right-handed ) shell of Neptunea despecta, found mainly in the Southern Hemisphere.
Millimetre-sized shear bands within the Génis sericite schist also point at dextral shearing.
The shell of this species is dextral ( right-handed ) in coiling.
The minute apex is recumbent, spiral, and dextral.
Dextral displacement at a rate of 1.7 mm / year is observed within the fault zone.
Geologically speaking, the line serves as a huge dextral strike-slip fault.
The outer threading 2 runs along an external helix which is dextral ( pitch on the right ).
The geometry of the fault is consistent with a set 1 dextral strike-slip fault, however.
Variations are spatially associated with Acadian ( Middle Devonian ) dextral strike-slip faults.
The deformation is mainly accommodated by strike-slip dextral N140 faults.
