Sentence examples for impermeable ground from inspiring English sources

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"impermeable ground" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a surface that is unable to be permeated by a liquid or gas. For example: "The impermeable ground made it impossible for the water to enter the soil."

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Rain falls in summer and autumn and evaporates quickly or, partly because of excessive clearing of the land, runs off the impermeable ground, leaving sandy gullies and pebble-strewn stretches of dry earth.

They require constructing two reservoirs on impermeable ground in mountainous country that's safe from large earthquakes.

The mobile part of NAPL may accumulate in the saturated zone as a continuous free-phase lens above the groundwater table (Light NAPL) or on the bottom of the impermeable ground layer (Dense NAPL).

Some irreversible, negative effects of soil sealing are impermeable ground and modified ecosystems (bio-geochemical cycle, water cycles, loss of biodiversity, etc)., which alter matter and energy flows and the ecological functions of the soil.

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Impermeable soil allows water stagnation and creates grounds for mosquito breeding and thus favors malaria.

In areas underlain by an impermeable layer (seasonally frozen ground or perennially frozen ground), the active layer is often saturated with moisture and is quite mobile.

A higher stream frequency points to a larger surface runoff, steeper ground surface, impermeable subsurface sparse vegetation and high relief conditions.

Impermeable vertical panels on the ground are an extensively studied issue and there seems to be an agreement between previous works and design codes.

In this study, the influences of river stage on design of shield tunnel linings are evaluated with respect to two common ground conditions: (a) impermeable overburden strata of low permeability and (b) permeable overburden strata of high permeability.

On a sturdy, somewhat impermeable base — Ms. Kolb says ground-up asphalt from road resurfacing projects work well — carcasses and wood chips are layered in piles about 8 feet in diameter and 10 feet high.

The dump, expected to cost $75 million, will be a concrete-lined hole in the ground set in nearly impermeable red clay, which is supposed to prevent the waste from contaminating underground water supplies.

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