Sentence examples for causing sand from inspiring English sources

However, siltation of fine grain particles, which are transported as part of the suspended load, is a major factor causing sand storage dams to perform poorly.

Wildlife campaigner Hugh Warwick posted the picture on Twitter after netting on Norfolk cliffs was causing sand martins to get stuck and die.

This challenge involved breaking tiles with a slingshot, causing sand to pour out of columns, releasing puzzle pieces and the next target tile, much the same way that pouring sand trapped Joan Collins in the collapsing pyramid in Howard Hawks's Ancient Egyptian cheesefest The Land of the Pharaohs.

Our experiments simulate a natural situation, which we often observed in the field when collecting Catagyphis ants, causing sand to collapse in the process.

Erosion, combined with a terrible 2005 hurricane season, washed away a lot of beach, leaving some hotels sitting right on the water's edge and causing sand-seeking travelers to look elsewhere.

As a consequence, krw declined by ∼96% and h increased locally by more than 1000 cm H2O during the first 24 h of the experiment, causing sand-pack ruptures and pump failure.

It was dealt its latest setback in September, when a fissure in an underground wall caused sand and thousands of gallons of water to gush onto the roadway.

The problem has also been worsened by sea-level rise and the number of jetties, or cuts to build seaports, that have proliferated, which causes sand to pile up on one side of the jetty but not the other.

Using this approach, we found that, for water and for dry and partially saturated granular materials lower deviatoric yield strength was a key factor which caused sand or water to flow more readily thereby producing higher levels of momentum loading to bodies in close proximity to the buried explosive.

Lateral migration causes sand body distribution more continuous, which expands the connected range of sand bodies.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the device causes sand to destabilize and move around, making it easier to dig through than solid sand.