Sentence examples for surface sand from inspiring English sources

If working on a painted surface, sand enough to roughen it, so a new layer of paint will stick.

The surface sand was easiest, ran through our hands quicker than dimes as the ocean registered the latest items of its ancient complaint.

Often, surface sand and mud gets washed into these to fashion a pockmarked landscape of pits and depressions which we call karst.

Mars presents several challenges to the rover locomotion subsystem with its rock-strewn surface, sand dunes, rocky outcrops, craters and slopes.

The type of surface (sand, silt, gravel, drainage) is a key factor with respect to dust emission in an ORV trail.

Specifically in arid desert areas, radar waves penetrate the dry surface sand sheet and highlight concealed geological structures or fossil river systems.

Aridity is manifested in Sinai by a degraded soil surface, sand-dune expanses, salinization, and wadis.

Alternately, Russell et al. showed that ENT were transported by wave associated events downward through surface sands to the groundwater, and could potentially then be carried seaward by submarine groundwater discharge (illustrated in Figure 4).

Near-surface sand sheet and deeper linear dune/barchanoid ridge geometries are revealed.

Looking closely, you discover they are not antique artifacts but beer cans with their printed surfaces sanded away.

Waters of high nutrient availability typically support growth of microalgae, with dense populations of both biofilms and phytoplankton leading to lower light penetration to leaf surfaces (Sand-Jensen and Sondergaard 1981; Sand-Jensen and Borum 1991; Lassen et al. 1997) and consequently also shallower depth limits for plant colonization (Sand-Jensen 1990).