Sentence examples for shallow deposit from inspiring English sources

But, thanks to the shallow deposit, labour represents only 15% of its costs.

For emerging markets that have shallow deposit bases and undeveloped domestic bond markets, it all adds up to slower credit growth.Markets that erect firewalls around their banking systems may also be sacrificing resilience in the event of a future crisis.

In response, Richard Molyneaux, president of De Beers Canada Inc., noted that no reserve had actually been defined on the Snap Lake property, which is about 140 miles northeast of Yellowknife, and that reaching under the lake bed to mine the shallow deposit would be risky.

This suggests that, in a shallow deposit, soil mass with larger initial shear stress needs larger cumulative shear strain to increase pore pressure ratio to some certain value.

From the viewpoint of slope stability analysis, this suggests that, particularly in the studied area where shallow deposit be present, gentle slopes are more prone to pore pressure build-up during earthquakes than are steep slopes.

Additional parametric study shows that all the considered parameters (including initial stress condition, softening rate and slope angle) have a considerable effect on the failure time and failure depth of the shallow deposit, which have important implications for the engineering design of expansive soil slopes.

In ancient times the Elamites, Chaldeans, Akkadians, and Sumerians mined shallow deposits of asphalt, or bitumen, for their own use.

As these shallow deposits thaw in today's warmer climate, bacteria are converting the carbon into methane and carbon dioxide, both of which are escaping into the atmosphere.

The more productive alluvial fields are relatively shallow deposits of fine-grained minerals that have accumulated in ancient riverbeds or valleys.

The UK's largest gold mine is in County Tyrone, where 14 tonnes have been discovered in shallow deposits beneath the peat, in the same Dalradian rock strata that runs across the northern UK to the mine at Cononish in the Scottish Highlands.

Last year, the oil sands — thick, heavy oil called bitumen that is mixed in with sand and clay — produced about 1.5 million barrels of oil a day, half from strip mining of relatively shallow deposits, the other from injecting steam into wells in deeper reserves.