Sentence examples for causes of ground from inspiring English sources

The pattern and probable causes of ground motion variations in different engineering-geological conditions are characterized.

Liquefaction is known as one of the major causes of ground failure due to the earthquake.

While private industry spent millions to meet a 1998 federal deadline to upgrade leaking underground fuel tanks -- the nation's leading cause of ground water pollution -- state and local government agencies continue to operate thousands of antiquated tanks in danger of leaking chemicals into water supplies, records show.

Groundwater drawdown is known as the most commonly reported cause of ground subsidence.

In this study, we used a dataset from the SABER instrument onboard the TIMED satellite to examine the causes of the ground observed variations.

Thus, detailed evaluations of the regional variations in Lg wave propagation are necessary for evaluating for the causes of strong ground motion damage in past earthquakes and for seismic hazard mitigation efforts in anticipation of future earthquakes.

Textile industries consume high volumes of water per unit fabric for processing, which cause depletion of ground water levels at a high rate.

Errors in rectification and GPS coordinates cause observations of ground attributes to be associated with spectral values of incorrect pixels which, in turn, introduces classification errors into the resulting maps.

Topographical effects may cause concentration of ground motion and induces larger response of the MDOF models.

They also argued over-use of the company's weedkiller Roundup, the chemical treatment the alfalfa is modified to be resistant to, could cause pollution of ground water and lead to resistant "super-weeds".

However, the problem associated with the continuous use of chemical fertilizer is that while it can lead to high crop yield; it may cause pollution of ground water after crop harvest (Gordon et al. 1993), and have adverse effects on plant quality.