Sentence examples for severe rock from inspiring English sources

They make the task of managing a top-flight football team sound like the ordeal of Sisyphus with added blisters, wasps, the acrid smoke of a nearby pet incinerator and a severe rock allergy chucked in.

Faults are the commonly encountered large geological discontinuities in hard rock masses, most severe underground structure instability is found to be closely associated with the faults presence nearby.

Less frequent but more severe is the case of high geostress, which in hard, brittle rock may result in dangerous rock bursts (explosive spalling off from the tunnel side) or in a more plastic rock mass may exhibit a slow squeezing into the tunnel.

They are often more severe on soft alluvium and unconsolidated sediments than on hard rock.

(This problem is more severe in rock than in salt formations, because salt has higher thermal conductivity than rock and dissipates the heat more easily).

Valley network asymmetry is more severe in rocks expected to offer little resistance to erosion than in more resistant rocks when controlling for climate.

A severe earthquake rocked a remote area along China's far western border on Monday morning, and Chinese officials said it killed at least 261 people and destroyed thousands of homes and other buildings.

The collapse induced a strong air shock and severe failure of rock strata.

Tropical climatic conditions cause severe weathering to rock masses resulting in thick weathering profiles consisting of different weathering zones with complex characteristics.

As a result of the relatively favorable stress and geological conditions, the support systems did not experience severe loading or rock deformation until the second panel approached within 10 15 m of the instrumented locations.

He pointed out that earthquake-induced landslides often occurred in mountainous regions with slopes >25°, elevations >150 m, recent erosion by a river or glacier, or severe breakdown of rocks.