Sentence examples for seepages from inspiring English sources

Boreholes drilled in the western district of Wokha have yielded oil, and seepages in the Dikhu valley, near Assam, suggest the presence of exploitable oil reserves.

For years such seepages were the only reliable indicators of the presence of underground oil and gas.

Gas and water seepages give rise to mud volcanoes of various types, the best-known of which is called the Devil's Woodyard.

Rivers are nourished by precipitation, by direct overland runoff, through springs and seepages, or from meltwater at the edges of snowfields and glaciers.

There are now three major types of exploration methods: (1) surface methods such as geologic feature mapping and detection of seepages, (2) area surveys of gravity and magnetic fields, and (3) seismographic methods.

Mud cones emitting steam and sulfurous fumes indicate slight volcanic activity on the island; there are also gas and oil seepages.

Apparently, explains Patsy, there is a new brand of panty pad that allows the modern woman to enjoy a full day's activity with no embarrassing seepage.

Less widely expected was a seepage of Labour votes to UKIP, especially in northern fiefs such as Houghton and Sunderland South, where the right-wing populists came second.

By giving retirees more say over their pension pots, a more ambitious ploy, he must hope to stanch the seepage of silver-haired Tory voters to the UK Independence Party, which has no economic policy to speak of.

Chris Perry, an irrigation economist widely considered the high priest of water accounting, points out that "efficient" domestic systems involve virtually no escape of water through evaporation or irrecoverable seepage.

They reckon the reservoir loses about 1m acre-feet (1.2 billion cubic metres) of water each year to evaporation and seepage into the canyon walls.