Sentence examples for surrounding bedrock from inspiring English sources

Once the new deck was completed, Mr. Trapp hired masons to quarry huge boulders from the surrounding bedrock to create a series of high-walled courtyards that make a transition between house and hillside.

Since the cleanup began, contractors have been installing long steel cables in holes drilled deep into the surrounding bedrock to ensure that the present wall, once supported by the basement floors of the trade center, does not collpase.

To support this wall while the basement was being dug, bundles of long steel rods known as tiebacks were drilled at a downward angle through the wall and anchored in the surrounding bedrock.

The elastic wave speed of the surrounding bedrock also varies, basically increasing with the depth in the uppermost crust.

The model consists of a 3 m long borehole containing a single U-pipe with surrounding bedrock.

Therefore, the P 560 nm group is more pure and should correspond to lithogenic hematite that originates from physical disintegration of surrounding bedrock.

All of these features indicate that the source of the Ca2+ and Mg2+ ions may come from chemical weathering of the surrounding carbonate bedrock and that the Sikou carbonate is of lacustrine origin.

Finally, the Jebel Al Awynat in the eastern part of the ROI (J in Fig. 1c) is represented by a relative dominance of the third principal component (blue), while surrounding sandstone bedrock appears bluish greenish, with a higher relative dominance of the second principal component.

Cobbles from the alluvial fans are eroding slower than the surrounding steep mountainous bedrock surfaces.

The direct method consists of explicitly modeling the surrounding soil to bedrock and the structure resting on the soil.

An advanced non-linear dynamic finite element model has been used to simulate such sophisticated problem, considering the full seismic interaction between tunnel, surrounding soil and bedrock motion.