Sentence examples for less weathered from inspiring English sources

The amount of deterioration per time unit ('the weathering intensity rate') is not a constant over time, but is for most rock masses larger when the mass is less weathered and becomes smaller with further progressing weathering.

In contrast to generally observed non-acidic and less weathered Mollisols in temperate semi-arid and humid climate, acidic and fairly weathered Mollisols on Deccan basalt are observed in hills of central (Satpura Range, Madhya Pradesh) and Western India (Western Ghats, Maharashtra) under forest in the present tropical humid climatic conditions.

Thewlis looks well, less weathered than you would expect.

Overall, the rock mass was less weathered and more competent than predicted by the initial ground investigation.

Less weathered might mean the PCB's were fresh from the factory site and would support G.E.'s case.

Stream sediments appear to originate from deeper, less weathered portions of the soil with lower accumulations of secondary Al and Fe.

The lateritic profile is 7 m deep from top soil to less-weathered peridotites.

Although weathering-resistant minerals (notably quartz) predominate, minor quantities of more easily weathering minerals, e.g. feldspars, volcanic glass, apatite, or amphiboles, may (still) be present indicating that Nitisols are less strongly weathered than associated Ferralsols.

Abundant native Si in the clays of higher-pH, less-weathered soils may also have contributed to the tenet that Si is more soluble in higher pH soils.

[16 19] The samples collected by the USGS are described as being least, less, and more weathered depending on their location (depth) to the original premined ground surface.

To this, the only response the average viewer probably mustered was a particularly aggressive fart, absorbed by a sofa that's been sat on through so many series of this cultural rubble that it's now less furniture, more a weathered death mask of their buttocks.