Sentence examples for thick layer of clay from inspiring English sources

Federal officials say the Model City landfill is generally well run, and they consider the thick layer of clay beneath it to be well suited for containing toxic waste over the long haul.

In these rocks, a facility would be located where there were very few cracks and waste canisters would be entirely surrounded by a thick layer of clay called bentonite, which swells when in contact with water.

During the Pleistocene Epoch (about 2,600,000 to 11,700 years ago), ice sheets advanced and retreated several times and deposited a thick layer of clay on the seafloor.

Then, in a pattern followed at many other sites, the government and the Hooker Chemical Company (now the Occidental Chemical Corporation), capped the chemical swamp with a thick layer of clay, installed pumps and drains to control runoff and ripped up miles of contaminated sewer pipe.

Existence of a thick layer of clay makes this region more susceptible to subsidence.

Resistivity value was very low (>10 Ω m) up to a depth of 16 m approximately due to presence of humus dominated top surface layer followed by thick layer of clay.

But thick layers of clay sealed off the buried site from damaging moisture, accounting for the pristine state of much of the art.

Thick layers of clay, silt, and sand were deposited along the present coast and in large areas in the Oslo and Trondheim regions, which rise as high as 650 feet (200 metres) above sea level today.

However, since the study area is located in the rain forest zone where total annual rainfall is about 1,500 mm, the granites weathered to form thick layers of clay deposit and as such cation anion exchange reactions were therefore suspected to contribute to the groundwater evolution of the study area.

In U Minh Thuong National Park, peat comprises the top soil layer, with a deep layer of clay below.

Such formations -- which include commercial oil and gas reservoirs, unmineable coal beds, and saline formations -- also sit well below thick layers of solid clay or shale or similar "cap rock" that is impermeable to carbon dioxide.