Sentence examples for sand drift from inspiring English sources
Directional statistics of the sand drift are given for each site.
The sand drift was sustained by dry northern glacial (katabatic) winds that drove the soil erosion.
Typically, sand drift net direction and intensity are assessed by means of the resultant drift potential.
In both scientific literature and technical practice sand drift estimation is carried out in mean terms.
Monte Carlo approach is adopted within a bootstrapping technique in order to assess sand drift in probabilistic terms.
The accurate prediction of windblown sand drift events approaching human infrastructures and activities is fundamental in arid lands.
Many sat for hours in ambulances and buses before being transported to safety through sand drifts and debris-filled floodwaters.
Along the edges of the industrial park, the sand drifts across empty streets; on one road, I counted two hundred and thirty-two street lights that weren't working.
Polycyclic soil sequences provide valuable archives of alternating unstable periods (sand drifting) and stable periods (soil formation) in NW-European coversand landscapes during the Subatlantic.
It lives in the sand dunes of Namibia, and because sand drifts and makes dunes that grow, Welwitschia can keep growing to keep its leaves on top of the dunes.
The cluster pine, or pinaster (P. pinaster), a vigorous grower in coastal sand, has been cultivated extensively for the purpose of stabilizing sand drifts, especially on the dunes of the Bay of Biscay and the Mediterranean.
