Sentence examples for blocks of sand from inspiring English sources

He said that their sheer size — they are still mostly encased in huge blocks of sand weighing thousands of pounds — required an owner with institutional space.

Painstaking examination of the walls revealed blocks of sand and clay clearly separated on a steep diagonal--the trace of so-called normal faulting, in which pull-apart forces cause blocks of ruptured crust to slide up and down relative to each other.

Craft TNT from five pieces of gunpowder and four blocks of sand or red sand.

If you can get above the creeper, you can drop two blocks of sand or gravel on the creeper, which has a good chance of killing it before it can escape.

Once you think you'll scream when you see another block of sand, adventure around and closely watch the terrain.

Already, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US are beginnign to explore the extremes of this notion, proposing everything from building blocks and trays of sand to sheets of malleable material and levitating balls to control on-screen experiences.

A theoretical relation was developed between the effective permeability of a sand-clogged pervious concrete block, the permeability of sand, and the porosity of the unclogged block.

In addition to the sculpture of her spine, exhibits include a large wood and latex representation of the rib cage, an illuminated impression of her MRI scan carved into a block of solid sand and a bronze of a woman's skull beneath a subtly lit and coloured x-ray of the real thing.

We show that the significant changes that have affected the bay shoreline and shoreface since 1978 clearly reflect anthropogenic impacts, notably blocking of alongshore sand transport by Agadir harbour, completed in 1988, and the foundations of which lie well beyond the depth of wave closure.

During the Depression, the Civilian Conservation Corps built an artificial dune that survives today along much of the length of the Banks, blocking the overwash of sand.

The "emplaced-source" tracer test methodology involved a controlled emplacement of a block-shaped source of sand containing chlorinated solvents below the water table.