Sentence examples for lightly compacted from inspiring English sources

With 1,100 miles (1,800 km) of the delta's lightly compacted levees in constant need of repair, it could take only one big earthquake to cause flooding on a scale not seen since Hurricane Katrina devastated the low-lying wards of New Orleans.

We placed each hatchling at the landward end of a 2.9 m length of black plastic guttering lined with moist, lightly compacted beach sand.

Lightly compact the soil.

Lightly compact the front with your body weight.

It is uncertain if the morphology changes and subsequent damage mechanisms for lightly cemented compacted soil will be similar to that of compacted clays or more similar to that of stronger, more brittle soil-cement reported in previous studies.

Unfortunately there is a lack of literature that has related hydraulic performance of lightly cemented compacted soils (~ 5%) after freeze/thaw cycling to the morphology changes that result from this type of environmental loading.

The primary objective of this paper is to enhance the knowledge base on morphology changes that lightly cemented compacted soils undergo as a hydraulic barrier under freeze-thaw conditions.

Press soil lightly to compact.

3 DNA is packaged by histones into chromatin, which can take two forms: compacted transcriptionally inactive heterochromatin or lightly packaged transcriptionally permissive euchromatin.

Heitz defined heterochromatin as staining intensely and remaining compacted during the cell cycle, while euchromatin would stain lightly and disappear during telophase.

Generally, two distinct states of chromatin are distinguished [ 4, 38]: heterochromatin is densely compacted and transcriptionally almost inactive; the decondensed euchromatin is only lightly packed, allowing transcriptional activity.