Sentence examples for bars of sand from inspiring English sources

Streamflow originating within the region may dry up, while bigger rivers may sink into braided channels between bars of sand.

The swirling bars of sand and sun-bleached mud flats look sulphuric viewed through the misty windows of our little 12-seater plane.

He created and patented an invention he called a "self-acting bar excavator" to be used by ships in crossing bars of sand and clay.

But the talk is still of boats and the tide and the state of that other bar (of sand and shingle) that lies across the Deben entrance.

On the northern tip of New Zealand's South Island, there is a long bar of sand called Farewell Spit.

The boka is separated from the open sea by a bar of sand, coral rubble and beachrock reaching a width of up to 70 m and a height of up to 3 m above present sea level (a.s.l) (Figs. 2 and 3).

The RNLI said it believed all five men fell into deep channels of water between sand-bars - mounds of sand created by wave and tide activity - which had been made deeper with the weekend storms.

Open image in new window Fig. 11 a LM bar: partial delamination of sand coating, b HM bar: detachment of entire sand coating, c bar pullout from the left hand part showing outward movement and d bar pullout showing inward movement of the bar.

Robbea sp.2 was collected in October 2006 in c. 1 m depth from a shallow water back-reef sand bar off Point of Sand Beach on Little Cayman, Cayman Islands (19°42′08″N, 79°57′46″W).

Oppenheimer and his colleagues considered several sites, including a patch of desert around two hundred miles east of Los Angeles, an island eighty miles southwest of Santa Monica, and a series of sand bars ten miles off the Texas coast.

Reports in Ecological Applications Photos of sand bars affected by the flood More about the Glen Canyon Dam, from the U.S. Geological Survey The Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center.