"shallow hole" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a hole that is not very deep, or only goes a short distance into the ground or surface. Example: The children dug a shallow hole in the sand at the beach. The gardener planted the flowers in a shallow hole to ensure they had enough space to grow.
They do this by 'gluing' their mouthparts onto the surface of the fruit, leaving a shallow hole or blemish in the surface of the apple.
He placed her inside a duvet cover taken from her home, and wrapped her in tape covering her eyes, mouth and nose, before digging a shallow hole.
When she dies, her body is bundled in an old blanket and buried in a shallow hole, with brush piled on top to keep wild animals away.
The shallow hole is needed so the plant can sit on a firm base of undisturbed soil that won't settle with time.
It is another "leap in the dark" – to use a phrase invoked about the 1867 voting reform bill – but only into a very shallow hole.
"In a tough market, nothing is overlooked," he said as he examined a shallow hole near the front door where a tree had been planted.
This is confirmed by AFM measurements which establish that the openings of the shallow holes are anisotropic with diameter along [1 10] direction being about 1.5 times larger than along [110] (Fig. 1c). Figure 4 a Neutral exciton X and biexciton XX fine-structure splitting (FSS) for several shallow-hole GaAs QDs as function of the average peak energy.
This paper introduces the aforementioned two PL excavation methods (shallow-hole blasting and bench blasting) and horizontal pre-split technique of dam foundation without protective layer (HPP).
They include shallow-hole bench blasting with cushion material (SBC) at the bottom of the hole, and horizontal smooth blasting (HSB).
The ductile fracture mode is obviously shown in the final fracture zone with deep-hole type dimples in the SPW joints but shallow-hole type dimples in the DPW joints.
In China, the PL of dam foundation is conventionally subdivided into two or three thin layers and excavated with the shallow-hole blasting method, even by pneumatic pick method in case of soft rock mass.
