Sentence examples for ground's surface from inspiring English sources

The seam being worked was 20 metres thick, and lay some 300 metres beneath what was once the ground's surface – the deeper of two black stripes of coal.

Areas of deeper snow cover appeal to small rodents who feed and construct winter nests at the ground's surface under the insulating layer of snow.

Permafrost underlies much of the park and preserve's area, but the short summer thaw of accumulated snow and the ground's surface layer releases more than 1,500 species of plants, including some 430 species of flowering plants.

Fault configurations are plotted on the ground's surface.

The earthquake fault that appeared within the ground's surface was reported by Koto (1893).

Contaminated water could rise to the ground's surface within three weeks, the Asahi newspaper predicted on Saturday.

A snapshot of the ground motion on Earth's surface is shown in Figure 2, and seismograms at five selected stations are shown in Figure 3.

Furthermore, given that the excitation mechanism of earthquake-associated infrasound is related to ground motion at the Earth's surface, the characteristics of deep-quake-associated infrasound signals cannot be distinguished from those of shallow earthquakes.

For example, LLCD's beam covers just 3.6 miles (6 km) of ground area when it reaches Earth's surface, meaning the system must be lined up fairly precisely with a ground station for data to be received.

It is, nonetheless, anticipated that the upcoming ESA's topside ionosphere multi-satellite Swarm mission (Friis-Christensen et al., 2006) will bridge the gap between multipoint ULF wave observations made independently in the magnetosphere by missions such as Cluster and THEMIS and on the Earth's surface by ground-based networks of magnetic stations.

Those who survived the catastrophe reported that cracks opened in the earth's surface, that the ground rolled visibly in waves and that large areas of land sank downwards.