Sentence examples for consisting of soil from inspiring English sources

Tunnels are generally grouped in four broad categories, depending on the material through which they pass: soft ground, consisting of soil and very weak rock; hard rock; soft rock, such as shale, chalk, and friable sandstone; and subaqueous.

On one side, the reinforced steep slope (RSS) was constructed with a face sloping 70° from the horizontal and consisting of soil bags.

In order to assess the effects of land use and landscape position on soil nutrients consisting of soil organic matter (SOM), total N (TN), total P (TP), available N (AN) and available P (AP), soil samples were collected in August and October 1998 and July 1999 from three transects in a small catchment on the loess plateau, China.

An integrated biogeochemical sampling approach, consisting of soil geochemistry, plant biogeochemical analyses and investigation of microbial community structure and function, was used to characterize a surficial geochemical signature of the buried Jaguar volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) Ag-Cu-Zn deposit in Western Australia's NE goldfields region.

The structure of information records was: a soil map unit (the smallest geographical unit and the unit of analysis) consisting of soil map unit components (specified kinds of soil or miscellaneous areas with little or no recognizable soil), with a component formed by layers.

After 15 days of treatment, the contaminated soil reduced the octane concentration by 65.1% and 37.2% when was treated with the biosurfactants produced by L. pentosus or the SDS, respectively, whereas in the untreated soil, consisting of soil contaminated with octane in absence of biosurfactant or surfactant, the octane concentration was only reduced by about 2.2%.

The setup consisted of soil bin system and measurement system.

The composition of the biomixture, which in the original Swedish model consisted of soil: peat: wheat straw (1 1 2 by volume), determines the efficiency of the system.

The test matrix consisted of soil fines contaminated with lead during manufacturing operations that were subsequently treated by two methods of Portland cement solidification/stabilization.

The disease management of Fusarium wilt usually consists of soil fumigation, seed treatment, use of disease resistant varieties, and biological control bacteria to reduce infection and disease severity (Zhang et al. 2008).

In order to improve seismic design technology of bridges, it is necessary to evaluate the vibration characteristics of a bridge soil system that consists of soil, foundation structure, pier and superstructure.