Sentence examples for overburden to from inspiring English sources

The closed-system type forms in level areas when unfrozen groundwater in a thawed zone becomes confined on all sides by permafrost, freezes, and heaves the frozen overburden to form a mound.

In some cases, this combination alone can overcome the weight of overburden to open sheeting joints.

Hence, it is necessary to add region-specific values for overburden to the coal mining processes.

For this study, the medium-size mine is defined with a production rate of 7.6 million bank m3 of overburden to be excavated annually.

The closeness of the top of the aquifer such as VES 2, 4, 8, 11 and 13 and others with such thin overburden to the aquifer suggests that borehole within these locations are more susceptible to surface contamination.

There is evidence that surface water has been transported down through the 700 feet of overburden to the exploratory tunnel at Yucca Mountain in less than 50 years.

Animal groups urge pet owners who are overburdened to contact the agencies.

Some feel unsure how to calculate B.M.I. or too overburdened to add still another task to their daily routine.

But other friends of Mr. Paterson worried that Mr. O'Byrne was too volatile and too overburdened to function effectively in so many roles.

With the city's infrastructure already overburdened to the breaking point, fully one-third of these new arrivals were forced to take up residence in urban shantytowns known as katchi abadis, which ordinarily lacked power, running water, or sanitation.

"The reality is African-Americans and Latinos who come from poverty-stricken neighborhoods are assigned public defenders too overburdened to do anything in most cases other than negotiate the most favorable plea deal, regardless of guilt or innocence," Mill wrote.