Sentence examples for block of soil from inspiring English sources

Reg Mead and Richard Miles found up to 50,000 silver and bronze coins, which remain clumped inside a massive block of soil.

When he went on to find a broken but beautiful silver gilt trumpet-shaped brooch, they told him it was the find of a lifetime and he'd never find another: he then found the second brooch, larger and in better condition a few minutes later, and a third, which is still locked within a block of soil but may be the best of the lot.

The test problem consists of a rectangular block of soil where specified pressure is applied at the top and bottom of the sample, and no-flow boundary conditions are imposed on the sides.

For the present study, the soil water balance model was also simplified in that the catchment was represented by a rectangular block of soil rather than a linear hillslope as in Schymanski (2007) and Schymanski et al. (2009 b ).

The weapons and helmet decorations, coins and Christian crosses amount to more than 1500 pieces, with hundreds still embedded in blocks of soil.

The bones were lifted in small blocks of soil, wrapped in newspaper, and delivered to Meyer.

In each of the points, 10 cm blocks of soil were extracted using a shovel and were put in polyethylene bags, so they could be transported and analyzed elsewhere.

This leads to a critical frequency from which this mitigation measure starts to be effective, depending on the stiffness contrast between the soil and the block of stiffened soil.

It is demonstrated that the wave impeding effect depends on the relation between the Rayleigh wavelength in the soil and the free bending wavelength in the block of stiffened soil, as the transmission of plane waves in the soil with a longitudinal wavelength smaller than the bending wavelength is hindered.

An analysis in the frequency wavenumber domain for a homogeneous halfspace reveals that the block of stiffened soil next to the track can act as a wave impeding barrier.

Kinder's eerie landscape of peat hags, blocks of dark soil standing more than human height above boggy rifts, also includes dramatic rock formations such as the Kinder Downfall.