Sentence examples for composed of sand from inspiring English sources

The desert region is composed of sand, rock, and gravel.

There's something to be said for a scene composed of sand, saguaro and rough red brick.

The mounds were composed of sand, rather than the clay used to build most major league mounds.

The half‐mile racing surface, composed of sand, loam and stone dust, was razor‐sharp as all hands awaited the rolling of the mobile starting gate.

At megascopic scale, the reservoirs are predominantly composed of sand bodies deposited by fluvial channel and aeolian facies associations.

Estuarine tidal bars emplaced in estuaries are complex sediment bodies composed of sand and mud provided by rivers.

sandstone -- Sedimentary rock composed of sand-sized clasts.

Chenier, beach ridge, usually composed of sand-sized material resting on clay or mud.

Wacke, also called dirty sandstone, sedimentary rock composed of sand-sized grains (0.063 2 mm [0.0025 0.078 inch]) with a fine-grained clay matrix.

Sandstones being a sedimentary type of rock are composed of sand-sized mineral grains, rock fragments and pieces of fossils which are held together by mineral cement.

Texturally, sandstones consist of two components: (1) a framework composed of sand-sized grains and (2) interstitial volume between grains, which may be empty, especially in modern sandstones, or, in the case of most ancient sandstones, filled with either a chemical cement of silica or calcium carbonate or a fine-grained matrix.