Sentence examples for scale of sand from inspiring English sources

"Wherever the rover's been we can literally map down to the scale of sand grains," says Calef. "Although," he admits, "it takes a little bit of work".

We present a model of fabric and porosity at 2 different scales: the scale of sand grains and the scale of the clay grains in the intergranular volume.

Lake-level fluctuations and sediment supply modulated the distribution pattern and scale of sand bodies by modifying the interrelationship between the rates of accommodation space creation and sediment supply.

Various experiments with laboratory scale of sand-packed columns and field trials have successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of biosurfactants in microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR).

Large scale mining of sand from the river course and variation in flow is the possible reasons for shifting in river Ghaghara.

A cross section through 6 wells, with an average well spacing of approximately 1 km, was made (Fig. 10) to further investigate the scale of the sand bodies in the study area.

We present a multi-scale 3D analysis of the pore network in a Rotliegend reservoir sandstone, both at the scale of the sand grains and the scale of the diagenetic clay cements that grow in the intragranular volume (IGV).

Three clogging models, K, from the literature were tested for their ability to describe the temporal changes in clogging at the scale of the sand box; the model of Clement et al. (1996) that makes no assumption on biomass distribution, the plug formation model of Thullner et al. (2002a), and the biofilm-plug formation model of Vandevivere (1995).

A series he shot in 2014 drives home the awesome scale of tar-sands strip mines in Alberta, Canada.

But we should not regard the pipeline or the eventual scale of tar sands production as inevitable.

Below me was the seemingly infinite golden expanse of Morecambe Bay, a vast desert fringed by distant shores, the sheer scale of the sands impossible to comprehend.