Sentence examples for unweathered rock from inspiring English sources
The desert regions have poorly developed soils of coarse texture containing many stones and unweathered rock fragments.
Unweathered rock can have a bearing capacity in excess of 60 tsf.
Each rover carried a panoramic colour stereo camera, a drill to make small holes for microscopic images of unweathered rock surfaces, and infrared, gamma-ray, and alpha-particle spectrometers to assay the chemistry of rocks and soil.
Tillite, sedimentary rock that consists of consolidated masses of unweathered blocks (large, angular, detached rock bodies) and glacial till (unsorted and unstratified rock material deposited by glacial ice) in a rock flour (matrix or paste of unweathered rock).
First, the initial rock fragment sizes are set by the distribution of spacing between fractures in unweathered rock, which is influenced by stresses encountered by rock during exhumation and by rock resistance to fracture propagation.
Diffusion of TCE and other CVOCs from deeper fractures penetrated only a few centimeters into the unweathered rock matrix, likely due to sorption of CVOCs on rock organic carbon.
Well-preserved, unweathered rocks that crystallized rapidly and have not been subjected to major reheating events are most likely to give valid isochrons.
From hydrogeologic point of view, unweathered basement rock contains negligible groundwater; however, significant aquiferous unit can develop within the weathered overburden and fractured bedrock.
The investigated samples comprise material of different weathering stages from unweathered and weathered rock to subsoil and strongly weathered topsoil.
Because most of the rock was unweathered and compact and, its cavities filled with secondary minerals such as zeolites, calcites and silicates, it is unlikely that the high overburden pressures would affect the observed wave velocities.
Hydrogeologically, like in other typical basement complex terrain, unweathered or fresh crystalline rocks have, on their own, hardly any potential in terms of groundwater occurrence and flow.
