Sentence examples for plain sand from inspiring English sources

Table 1 Stratigraphic relation of the units in southern Akwa Ibom State Period Epoch Formation Aquifer Quaternary Recent Alluvium Upper sand Beach ridges   Pliocene Pleistocene Benin formation or   Coastal plain sand   Modified from Petters (1989) and Esu et al. (1999) Open image in new window Fig. 2 a Typical floodplains mud and b typical alluvial sands.

In some areas of the world, including Berlin, Germany, dropping salt is prohibited altogether except on the highest-risk roads; plain sand without any melting agents is spread instead.

But most often the wind surging over the plain sanded the cries into a kind of coyote dust, fractioned into particles of sound.

Even though laboratory studies demonstrate that gravity-driven, bottom-hugging turbidity currents deposit sand-size grains together with mud-size clasts, modern deep-sea fan and abyssal plain sands (turbidites) have a matrix component that seldom exceeds 10 percent.

The rocks in the area include coastal plain sands and recent alluvial deposits.

The Benin Formation, on the other hand, has been described as "coastal plain sands".

This consists of alluvial and upper coastal plain sands deposits about 2000 m thick (Avbovbo 1978).

The coastal plain sands and recent alluvium are jointly referred to as the Benin Formation (Omatsola and Adegoke 1981).

The work of Petters (1982, 1989), showed that the area belongs partly to the coastal plain sands, beach ridge complex and alluvium of Quaternary Period (Table 1).

In the Tertiary also, in younger succession, the Imo Shale Group, Bende Ameki Group, Coastal Plain Sands, and Alluvium constitute the Formations within the study area.

The topmost Benin Formation is a continental deposit of alluvial and upper coastal plain sands with an age ranging from latest Eocene to Recent.