Sentence examples for columns of sand from inspiring English sources

Mr. Brooks, who received patent 6,083,072, says his design can also be used on a beach to create columns of sand for sculpting.

He began to build his own columns of sand in his lab, measuring how tall and thin he could make them before they fell down.

We present here an application of a new experimental method called the 'interfacial tracers technique' (IFTT), using tracer retardation by adsorption as the basis, to determine the specific NAPL water interfacial areas (anw, cm2/cm3) in packed columns of sand and glass beads containing residual saturation of non-aqueous phase liquid (NAPLs).

That equation means it is possible to build tall, skinny columns of sand that won't fall apart.

Amid the cliffs, there are dark slopes where shale has slumped down towards the sea, and columns of sand-coloured rock, with jagged gashes left by the recent rock falls that have sent heaps of boulders crashing down to where they lie below.

The methodology was also tested for four different soil types including a homogeneous column of sand, a homogeneous column of clay, a duplex column of clay over sand, and a duplex column of silty sand over clay.

Results from an experiment using a vertically split column of sand and silt clearly showed initial hydrate formation in the sand, followed by slow encroachment into the silt.

Like most diggers, Ms. Wyman was using a clam gun — essentially a metal tube that, when shoved into the beach, pulls up a column of sand with a clam enclosed, if it has been aimed right.

From studies of sand blows--columns of sand that shoot through the soil during an earthquake--they also deduced that similar-magnitude quakes had occurred some 400 and 800 years ago.

The agreement indicates that the analytical solution could be used to estimate falling rate evaporation from finite columns of coarse sand and fine sand.

In this study, initially, we harvested six Escherichia coli strains from springs in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, and then we carried out a number of experiments with 1.5 m high columns of quartz sand with various sampling ports in order to determine the fraction of bacteria as a function of sticking efficiency.