Sentence examples for layer of granite from inspiring English sources

One June day three years ago, five miles south of the village of Amsteg, two worms were working their way south through a layer of granite and gneiss more than a mile underground.

On Table Mountain, rainwater seeps down through porous sandstone until it hits an impenetrable layer of granite.

Above the magma is a layer of granite-like rock called felsite, which transmits heat to a thick layer of sandstone-like material called graywacke, riddled with fractures and filled with steam.

REEs in this deposit primarily occur in the weathered layer of granites and are generally adsorbed in soils/sediments in the form of ions (Bao and Zhao 2008).

The layers of granite in migmatites, and perhaps larger granitic bodies, may have formed through anatexis.

To the south, the Herrenknecht worms had begun by toiling through a long, undulating layer of kakirite — a sodden, crumbly material compressed between layers of granite.

The Precambrian layer is buried under more recent geologic formations except in parts of northern, western, and southern Ethiopia, where there are exposed rock layers of granite and schist.

The new report, published online yesterday, focuses on a process that it said could affordably harvest heat locked in deep layers of granite that exist almost everywhere on earth.

The United States could generate as much electricity by 2050 as that flowing today from all of the country's nuclear power plants by developing technologies that tap heat locked in deep layers of granite, according to a new study commissioned by the Energy Department.

The Israelis have zeroed in on Iran's plan to put much of its uranium enrichment near Qum in an underground facility beneath so many layers of granite that even the Pentagon acknowledges it would be out of the reach of its best bunker-busting bombs.

First off, the road buildrs laid a foundation of rock and topped it with a two-foot layer of broken granite, well rolled.