Sentence examples for sliding soil from inspiring English sources

It is true, they say, that tree roots can trap sliding soil but only for shallow landslides of up to a metre in depth.

Minimizing the sliding soil resistance on the side of the coulter was one of the main considerations in forming the shape and number of blades.

Ravel, which is the rolling, bouncing, and sliding of soil clods downslope, was a secondary translocation process that accounted for almost 40% of the soil flux.

The weathered nature and high clay content of these soils predispose slopes to shallow, rapid slides (soil slip and debris avalanche) and flows involving soil and regolith.

There's also a section on how to plant 100 bulbs in under 30 minutes: Excavate an area five feet square and seven inches deep (15 minutes), placing the removed soil on a piece of plywood or cardboard; spread the bulbs evenly with their tips up (5 minutes); and slide the soil back over the bulbs, tamping it down lightly (10 minutes).

Flash flood, long and terrible monsoon, earthquake rock sliding or toppling, soil cave-in, and sudden profusion of snow melting are some of the elementals that precede landslide in a particular area.

The failure plane in a reinforced soil structure, however, almost always intersects the reinforcement layers obliquely thus subjecting the reinforcement to oblique (non-axial) force by the sliding mass of soil which results in mobilization of additional pullout resistance.

Embankment shallow planar soil slide or shallow soil slip: Shallow soil volume sliding along an inclined slip and planar surface.

The soil cliff and the reduction of sliding distance in the soil mass part of the slide shows that the soil mass was drawn to slide by the lateral traction of the rocky sliding mass.

This intensive mechanical mixing of the frozen/unfrozen soil horizon is further enhanced by sliding of the unfrozen soil layers along the ice boundary, especially visible at the N-facing slope.

It is assumed that the movement speeds of the horizontal parts of the landslide are consistent, the displacement load of soil mass sliding downwards is evenly distributed, and the vertical friction of the soil mass against the pipeline is neglected.