Sentence examples for the overlying material from inspiring English sources

The in situ stress in a rock mass is simply equal to the weight of the overlying material; therefore, the discontinuities will control the magnitude and direction of this stress field.

Underground mining of oil shale, which removes less of the overlying material, employs the room-and-pillar method.

These procedures remove most of the overlying material to expose the deposits of oil shale, and become practical when the deposits occur near the surface.

One hypothesis suggests that these features are produced through the exhumation of volcanic sills, and the overlying material is either blasted out or integrated into the sill.

The bottom layer of clay had a texture of larger lumps, while the overlying material was broken up into smaller particles.

One hypothesis suggests that they are produced through the exhumation of volcanic sills, with the overlying material either being blasted out or integrated into the sill.

Apparently the fluid was derived from subsurface reservoirs, and the overlying materials collapsed as fluid was released.

Knudsen and Gunter[33] and Herring and Grauch[34] proposed that the enrichment of Se in the middle waste shale is a result of weathering of Se from the overlying materials and precipitation in the less permeable middle waste shale, making it possible for Se in the least weathered material to exist in the mobile, oxyanionic, Se(IV) and Se VI) species.

The relatively high values of Fe2O3 and FeO in all the samples are thought to be as a result of the influence of the ferruginized overlying materials on the shale outcrops.

Any movement between the apex of a stent and the overlying graft material will erode the fabric; stents and grafts need to move as a single unit.

It was so far regarded as a quite rigid unit with strain localization at the upper contact with the overlying oceanic material, the East Tenda Shear Zone (ETSZ), where previous studies were focused.