It is shown that at low percentages of fines content, there is a significant difference between the dynamic properties of the various samples due to the different characteristics of the sand portion of the mixtures.
Using the experimental results, new expressions for the prediction of small-strain shear modulus and small-strain damping ratio of non-plastic silty sands are developed accounting for the percentage of silt and the characteristics of the sand portion.
Analysts say the deals came at attractive prices and will bolster the sand portion of the company's business, whose strategy is to vertically integrate.
Now, real estate agents say, that base is growing in the bantam-size hamlet in the sleepy sugar-sand portion of Michigan's lower peninsula that most residents call "Up North".
Over this decade, the oil sands portion of Canada's oil production is expected to double, hitting 50percentt by 2005.
"God is Nature, and Nature God," Baum said; yet he also professed an animistic vision in which every bit of wood, every drop of liquid, every grain of sand or portion of rock has its myriads of inhabitants...
"God is Nature, and Nature God," Baum said; yet he also professed an animistic vision in which every bit of wood, every drop of liquid, every grain of sand or portion of rock has its myriads of inhabitants....These invisible and vapory beings are known as Elementals....They are soulless, but immortal; frequently possessed of extraordinary intelligence, and again remarkably stupid.
When an energy developer treads that same path, however, he often sees with a kind of seismic vision, sensing beneath those same geologic sands a portion of the approximately 137 trillion cubic feet of natural gas that is believed to lie within the Rocky Mountain region.
The coarse sand in the upper portion of the porous medium was cleaned rapidly by the surfactant flushing.
This line shapefile represents a portion of Sand Hill Road in near the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, including Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Stanford, and Woodside, California.
One by one, Mr. Jiménez placed what looked like table tennis balls into a plastic bag and transferred them to an ersatz nest he had dug in a shaded, fenced-off portion of sand that serves as a hatchery.
