Sentence examples for poorly cemented from inspiring English sources

Badlands develop in arid to semiarid areas where the bedrock is poorly cemented and rainfall generally occurs as cloudbursts.

The Great Plains were built by successive layers of poorly cemented sand, silt, and gravel debris laid down by parallel east-flowing streams from the Rocky Mountains.

"The use of old, poorly cemented wells — not fracking — is what can cause stray gas to leak into the water supply," Terry Engelder, a geologist at Penn State who has often defended the technique, told me.

It was created by cloudbursts that cut deep gullies in poorly cemented bedrock; its extensive fossil deposits have yielded the remains of such animals as the three-toed horse, camel, saber-toothed tiger, and rhinoceros.

And most of the cases where people have had gas in their water, it looks like it was because the wells were poorly cemented to the ground, they were leaky anyway, but it wasn't the pressure of the fracking that caused this to happen.

And most of the cases where people have had gas in their water, it looks like, because the wells were poorly cemented to the ground, they were leaky anyway, but it wasn't the pressure of the fracking that caused this to happen.

The sands are generally moderate to poorly sorted and cemented.

A group of predatory businessmen with interests in tobacco and automotive distribution is attempting to unlock value by taking over Saurashtra Cement, another poorly performing cement company.

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.

Created as a new home for slum dwellers cleared from Delhi's old city in the 1970s, Trilokpuri is another zone of transition, still halfway between the urban and the rural, where buffalo graze amid plastic bags and rubbish in the wastelands that separate new, poorly built cement blocks of flats.

There is a lot of rubble in Haiti; millions of pieces of poorly mixed cement from disintegrated buildings abound in this country even without a recent earthquake, and I admired this resourceful repurposing of the material.