Sentence examples for a core of mud from inspiring English sources

The ziggurat was always built with a core of mud brick and an exterior covered with baked brick.

The method of above-ground wall construction appears to have been the same for all groups: a core of mud and stone covered with plaster or well-cut trachyte.

The team hopes to get a lot of answers about life in Lake Mercer by extracting a core of mud up to 8 metres long from the base of the lake.

It works just like an apple corer, and when you lift it out, a core of stabbed mud comes with it. Et voilà.

Iona has a core of young players.

A core of twenty or so.

There is, then, a core of hopefuls.

He would have a hollow plastic tube lowered over a hexagonal spot and scoop up a thick core of seabed mud.

Now scientists are using a sophisticated multibeam sonar device to map the seafloor beneath the ship in high resolution, and pulling up cores of mud to learn about the geologic history of the area.

In previous work taking cores of mud from the Nile delta, Dr. Stanley found that this branch of the river had shifted several miles to the east about 2,000 years ago before silting over and disappearing.

Our scientists map the ocean floor and measure the movements of ice sheets; they bore into ancient trees and pull cores of mud from the sea bottom to uncover secrets of past climate; they chart the flow of ocean and the swirl of atmosphere around the planet.