Sentence examples for from above ground from inspiring English sources

Cross-checking with non-destructive prospection methods such as geophysics and soil sciences allows the evaluation of the percentage of the sites detectable from above ground.

This piece weighs 1,270 metric tons and was lowered from above ground to the bottom of the tunnel, 90 meters below, with mere centimeters of clearance.

At first, they were considered safe from attack because neither U.S. nor Soviet missiles were sufficiently accurate to strike the other's launch sites; hence, early systems were launched from above ground.

"The person who gave us the tour said, 'Don't be fooled by the building's exterior, because most of the activity that occurs cannot be seen from above ground' — which the only thing I can conclude from that is they must have a big underground chamber of some sort," the official said.

Kevin Ortiz, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, noted that many IRT stations, including much of the Lexington Avenue line, were not very deep, allowing some riders to find a signal from above ground long before the networks were established at the stations.

The excavations were resumed in 1823 with the intention of discontinuing the previous tunneling and instead working from above ground, a method used with success at Pompeii; up to 1835 the work proved to be of value, bringing to light the first houses of Herculaneum, among which was the peristyle of the House of Argus.

The determinant factor for the seismic response of underground structures is the deformation of surrounding soil, which is different from above-ground structures.

JED BROWN She made us drink lumpy, instant nonfat powdered milk to protect us from radioactive fallout from above-ground nuclear testing.

Stepping away from above-ground hermetic aging rooms with artificially controlled temperature and humidity and from ripening cheese wrapped in Cryovac or sealed in wax, these cheesemakers have started a little construction boom in caves and cellars, getting a bit closer to the way cheese was aged for centuries.

The carbon loss in below-ground biomass alone totaled 1.38 Tg C, with the balance (0.31 Tg C) coming from above-ground biomass and detritus.

B Location information obtained through the application of surface geophysical methods C Location information obtained by inferring from above-ground utility features.