Sentence examples for underlying sand from inspiring English sources

Then by applying a structure force on the underlying sand deposits, the effect of the structure on the liquefaction potential is evaluated.

Farmers there and farther west have created new farmland by mixing the peat with underlying sand, artificial fertilizers, and manure from livestock raised on technologically advanced, capital-intensive farms.

This paper presents how mudmat design of an offshore jacket at North Sea has taken on geotechnical challenge, where very soft clays underlying sand immediately underneath the mudmat prevents the design from directly using conventional analytical procedure.

The traces of plastic shear strain increments are monitored to observe how the vertical load is transmitted to underlying sand and clay layers, and to study the associated failure surface.

High concentrations of ingressing Cl (~ 375 mg L− 1) and Na (~ 575 mg L− 1) (even though the latter is delayed, or retarded) are expected to migrate through the till and into the underlying sand channel.

Results showed that depending on the initial density of the sand deposits and different structures, water depths and wave characteristics, the presence of a structure may increase or decrease the liquefaction potential of the underlying sand deposits.

One of his units, the Terrain Crétacé, included chalks and underlying sands.

Loess was first studied in Michigan on the Buckley Flats, where outwash, overlain by ≈70 cm of loamy sediment, was originally interpreted as loess mixed with underlying sands.

Soil scientists from the universities of St Andrews and Stirling also attended to look at the underlying sands and gravels with a view to mapping the evolution of the nearby River Dee and determining the most likely locations for habitation in the earliest periods of the site's history.

Clay underlying the sand has an OSL age of 63.1 ± 5.8 ka, and sandy peat below it has an Infrared Stimulated Luminescence (IRSL) age of 70 ± 10 ka.

The core displayed, with increasing depth, a microbial mat, a goethite-rich sediment from the flowing acidic ferric sulfate-rich stream (FlowMG1a – FlowMG1c) and underlying quartz sands and clays (comprised of minor kaolinite and microcline).