Sentence examples for coarser material from inspiring English sources

Where seepage is inevitable, the use of finely graded core material in proximity to coarser material is avoided.

In some, coarser material, pebbles, and boulders form polygonal nets, with the finer materials concentrated in the centre.

In contrast, CO content seems to be related to coarser material with less surface area and organic content.

In engineering practice, a cover layer of coarser material has been used to protect a buried marine pipeline from wave-induced seabed instability.

The "eraser" is the surf, a high-energy force that erodes and reworks everything as it passes over, winnowing out the finer-than-sand-sized sediment and leaving the coarser material behind.

With the help of hydrogeological tests, chemical analyses and two 2.5 m-deep trenches, it is shown that the two conductive zones are correlated with fine-grained waste rock and the resistive zone correlates with a coarser material.

With the coarser materials, a very blunt slug was common.

Larvae filter small organisms out of the water; at the time when they metamorphose into the adult, they also feed upon coarser materials deposited on the bottom.

Other main concerns of clastic petrology are the mode of transportation of sedimentary materials, including the transportation of clay, silt, and fine sand by wind; and the transportation of these and coarser materials through suspension in water, through traction by waves and currents in rivers, lakes, and seas, and sediment transport by ice.

The gradual decrease of coarser materials, which is represented by the increase of PC1, probably reflects the progressive lowering of bed shear stress of both fluvial and wave activities (Fig. 10).

The increased addition of RHA and CHA may also have resulted in decreased quantity of free silt and clay fraction and formation of coarser materials with larger surface areas which requires more water to take place (Osinubi 1999).