Sentence examples for loose deposits from inspiring English sources

In addition, loose deposits are very sensitive to construction disturbances.

These findings can be useful for tunnel design and construction in the similar type of loose deposits.

Tunnels constructed in loose deposits with low strength and complex composition are usually subjected to asymmetrical stresses at the entrance and exit.

In this paper, a large shallow highway tunnel in loose deposits is used as an example to study the cracking mechanism of secondary lining.

Sapropelic coal, hydrogen-rich coal, including cannel coal and boghead coal (see torbanite), derived from sapropels (loose deposits of sedimentary rock rich in hydrocarbons) and characterized by a dull black, sometimes waxy lustre.

"Reclaimed land and river banks which typically consist of loose deposits are prime locations for liquefaction in case of strong shaking," she said, adding that it is unlikely that the tsunami was involved in the soil liquefaction seen in Indonesia, but rather that the earthquake was responsible.

A widespread, loose deposit consisting mainly of silt; most loess deposits formed during the Pleistocene as an accumulation of wind-blown dust carried from deserts, alluvial plains, or glacial deposits.

With the aid of a GIS platform combined with field investigations, we continuously tracked movements of the loose deposit materials in all the debris flow gullies along an 18 km reach of PR303 and the characteristics of the regional debris flows during several storms in the past seven years.

Such textural characteristics and facies variation are consistent with a continuous fall deposition of Hawaiian fire-fountains episodes alternated with Strombolian phases emplacing loose scoria deposits.

At the peak of the flood, an estimated 715,000 cubic metres per second of water gushed over the Snake river plain at speeds over 60 miles an hour, widening and deepening the canyon and leaving massive terraces of loose flood deposits above the high-water line.

Beaches are loose unconsolidated deposits made by marine action near the shore.