Sentence examples for laid shallow from inspiring English sources

"My water people told me that some had been laid in the 19th century," said Mr. Rendell, "and they were laid shallow, without much protection.

In addition, the braided distributary channels also perform some sorting, laying shallow sheets of sand and silt over the surface of the fan, while coarser sands and gravels are laid down in the main channels where water tends to flow more quickly.

Evidence from the Pinyes locality corroborates previous studies that conclude that the taxa laying megaloolithid eggs (presumably titanosaurs) were laid in shallow excavated "pit-like", bowl-shaped, or saucer-like structures.

They are laid in shallow pools 50-700 cm depth) and remain adhered to the substratum until the hatching of fry.

Two or three eggs, olive blotched with brown, are laid in a shallow excavation sheltered by low vegetation.

After he died, he was laid in a shallow pit with a dead comrade and the sawed-off arms and legs of as many as 11 more soldiers cut down at the Civil War's Second Battle of Bull Run, in August 1862.

Since the sediments that have accumulated in Beppu Bay are young and have been laid on a shallow sea bottom, we assumed that they are unconsolidated sediments and have low Young's moduli and strengths.

Level fields, surrounded by an earth bank, are laid out in shallow steps so the water is passed down-slope from field to field (Plate 5.26).

This contrasts strongly with most "Ediacaran" fossil assemblages, which were laid down in relatively shallow water.

Their bodies were discovered weeks later in a shallow grave, laid out carefully, side by side, in opposite directions.

There, 54-million-year-old sediments laid down in a shallow lagoon preserved the remains of the oldest coral reef fish known.