Sentence examples for depleted sand from inspiring English sources

The waves reached the dunes along most beaches, causing some minor beach erosion; the depleted sand returned within a few days.

In comparison to the units located above and below this sub-unit, it was slightly depleted in sand and enriched in clay.

Yang et al. (2002) also showed that REEs are generally enriched in clay and silt fractions, but depleted in the sand fraction, suggesting that grain size may be crucial control on sediment chemistry, something that has been documented in other SE Asian rivers (e.g., Clift et al. 2008).

Instead, he suspects that adult herring, which have increased around Shetland, may be depleting the sand-eel population.

The last piles will be depleted in February, when sand replenishment is completed on the beach of the affluent village of Bal Harbour.

After the gravel and sand pits were depleted, they became enormous garbage dumps where scavengers roamed.

Broward County is not much better off; its offshore sand is nearly depleted.

Hartford City's natural gas supply was depleted, and the type of sand used to produce glass was in better supply near other American Window Glass plants in Pennsylvania.

2. Must walk barefoot anywhere he travels within the Middle East (no exceptions for piping hot sand, camel dung or depleted uranium dust).

Therefore the nutrients present in the fresh top layer of sand could not yet have been depleted by plants in the field.

Despite the promise, globally, just 13 large-scale CCS plants are operating in places such as Boundary Dam in Canada and Century Plant in Texas, often using the compressed CO2 to prise away tar sands and eek out the dregs of depleted oil wells.