Sentence examples for impermeable layer from inspiring English sources

All that plaster forms an impermeable layer on the water's bottom so that organisms can't breathe".

In some of the coldest parts of the world, wetlands are sustained by an impermeable layer of ice that remains in the soil throughout the year.

In other words, the surface of nanoporous particles can be seen as a generally impermeable layer showing rare and homogeneously dispersed pore openings21,60.

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.

An impermeable layer must be located below, but near, the root zone of the crop so that water is trapped in the root zone.

Researchers found that there was detectable ground uplift in the area surrounding the two shallower wells where the water was being injected above a large, impermeable layer of rock.

If the upper and lower aquifers have the same storativities and transimissivities, the system can be simplified into an equivalent double-layered, aquifer aquitard system bounded by impermeable layers from up and down.

And the basalt has dense, impermeable layers that keep the buoyant gas contained.

Also, pumping so much water into porous rock confined between impermeable layers could, in theory, crack the ceiling or floor, some geologists have said.

Fragipan horizons are naturally occurring impermeable layers found in certain soil types which constrain crop yields.

If the water becomes trapped between impermeable layers within the fan, it may be tapped by wells along the base, and these may exhibit artesian flow as the groundwater builds up pressure within the fan.