Sentence examples for mainly of sand from inspiring English sources

"It sits on a base that is constructed mainly of sand and gravel and clay.

These deposits consist mainly of sand and gravel and having higher values of hydraulic conductivity.

It is a transitional series composed mainly of sand but with some shale.

In contrast, the underground layer consists mainly of sand with a very poor sodium-adsorption ratio.

The Bering Sea shelf is composed mainly of sand and mud [243].

Material deposited at the bottom of the concrete mixer consisted mainly of sand, fragments of rock, and pyrite nodules, which was free of amber, revealing the efficiency of this method in processing large quantities of amberiferous rocks.

It is a flat, low-lying, and frequently flooded plain that is between 5 and 25 miles (8 and 40 km) wide and is composed mainly of sands and clays.

The geology is that of Recent Littoral/Lagoonal Deposit consisting mainly of sands and silts.

It consists mainly of sands and gravels with thicknesses ranging from 0 to 2100 m (Avbovbo 1978).

At several mineral exploration drilling sites in Australia, weakly consolidated formations mainly consist of sand particles that are poorly bonded by cementing agents such as clay, iron oxide cement or calcite.

The sea bottom is mainly composed of sand, sandy mud, muddy sand and bedrock outcrops (Usiriprisan et al., 1987; Di Geronimo et al., 2009; Feldens et al., 2009, 2012).