Sentence examples for thick layer of sand from inspiring English sources

It was a thick layer of sand on a subsurface of clay.

The alarm, spread by loudspeakers positioned around town, sounded two more times before nightfall as winds blew a thick layer of sand onto the boardwalk.

(The two main show courts and three other courts are built on slabs of concrete, topped with a thick layer of sand).

But the wind blew sand over the refugees' tents and their meager belongings, covered the children's faces with a thick layer of sand and added emphasis to the light brown color of their robes.

The remains of the Neolithic, or Late Stone Age, settlement were buried under a thick layer of sand at an oasis about 50 miles southwest of Cairo, in a desert region called the Faiyum.

Charles Bage came up with a solution: instead of timber posts, joists and floorboards, he used iron columns supporting iron beams, carrying shallow brick arches, then a thick layer of sand, then tiles forming the surface of the next floor.

The thick layers of sand are interpreted to be channel bars or channels, and the silt, clay silt, and silty clay are interpreted as overbank fines.

According to the drilling situation and previous research, the thick layers of sand are generally located far from the material source areas where palaeo-water depths were greater (Fu et al. 2013).

Among them is a remote cave where the team conducted an "emergency archaeological rescue" of artifacts entombed beneath thick layers of sand and driftwood: arrowheads, crude stone implements, rope and fabric woven out of sea grass.

The theory is that they are drilling into "source rock," as Schiller calls it, a 10,000-foot-thick layer of sand and stone eroded from the Rockies and Appalachians (along with a half-continent's worth of dead vegetation) and washed down the Mississippi 60 million years ago.

Rare horizontal stratifications of silty clay can be found between the thick layers of sands, characterized by being thick in the middle of the sequence (>5 m) and thin in the crest and bottom (1 3 m).