Sentence examples for layer of chalk from inspiring English sources

The Chunnel is thirty-one miles long and passes through a layer of chalk as soft as an Oreo's filling.

The borehole leads from a chamber directly underneath and penetrates a water-holding layer of chalk 40 metres below the surface.

As each day wore on the layer of chalk dust got progressively thicker, giving her skin a ghostlike quality, as if she were fading away -- along with our attention.

The yellow layer of lead tin yellow type II is located on the white ground layer of chalk.

Before long, Cornell's palms are coated in a black layer of chalk and lead.

Sea levels rose globally during this period and much of low-lying Scotland was covered in a layer of chalk.

As a result, the barren layers of chalk and limestone that earlier constituted the land surface acquired a covering of soil that built up as the Weichsel retreated, forming low, hilly, and generally fertile moraines that diversify the otherwise flat landscape.

Less and less do we see the blackboard as much as we see the layers and layers of chalk dust.

The sample comprises a colored ground layer composed of chalk and red earth pigment (Fig. 5b, layer 1).

Some of the layers are weak zones of chalk that could have allowed the rocks above to break away and slide toward the open center of the crater, creating the circular fractures.

The foundation of the two wings and the rectangular room was made of a thin layer of rammed clay and chalk.