Sentence examples for clay sealing from inspiring English sources

To limit this effect, De Pauw immediately, in the mine-gallery, re-covered the dug-out fossils with wet clay, sealing them with paper and plaster reinforced by iron rings, forming in total about six hundred transportable blocks with a combined weight of a hundred and thirty tons.

But thick layers of clay sealed off the buried site from damaging moisture, accounting for the pristine state of much of the art.

On the surface, rainwater can only be accumulated in clay sealed karst depressions.

It's Tuesday morning in Coventry and three children are making clay seal pups on the dining table at home.

The Egyptians were already placing clay seals on their jugs with information about the origin and contents.

The Harappan seals were evidently used to seal bundles of merchandise, as clay seal impressions with cord or sack marks on the reverse side testify.

Over the past four years, more than 15 mosaic panels have been rescued, together with scores of bronze figurines, tens of thousands of clay seals and other artefacts now on display at Gaziantep.

The brick was uncovered in a section of the house occupied by women, and several clay seal impressions there bore the name of the "noblewoman and king's daughter Renseneb".

Although information about the following centuries is meagre, clay seals and inscriptions on copper plates and stone that date from the 7th to the mid-12th century indicate that the inhabitants of the region attained considerable power and a fair degree of social, economic, and technological development.

The test examines the effectiveness of an expansive clay seal in a horizontal borehole specifically drilled for this purpose.

The large-diameter VDH holes have dense clay seals of smectite-rich material in combination with clay mud for stabilization of the rock.