Sentence examples for weak bedrock from inspiring English sources

Saturation of the residual soil, weak bedrock and high slope angle are the primary factors in the slide-trigger.

"There is no way to rationalize running water down a hillslope with deep soils and a forest on it and weak bedrock," said Jeffrey Mount, a UC Davis emeritus professor of geology and expert on California water.

This is as a result of widespread occurrence of thick and largely fine-grained regolith overlying the main groundwater-bearing zones of fractured and weak amphibolitic bedrocks.

The illustration of the depth variation of long-period Love wave amplitude in Figure 5b might be suggestive of the weak physical effect of the bedrock on the excitation of long-period Love waves.

Generally, from the 25 soundings conducted within amphibolite terrains, the bedrocks of about 44% locations are fractured, 12% are regarded as weak or partially weathered while 44% bedrocks are unaltered (Fig. 12).

Soils were found to have substantially variable properties but had on average sandy texture, weak structure and limited depth to bedrock.

Notwithstanding, 33% of bedrock were classified as weak, which is higher than those found in porphyritic granite and even in amphibolite terrains (Fig. 12).

The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to assess the relationship between algal biomass and ambient nutrient levels along the longitudinal course of a river through a transition from weak to well-developed underlying karst bedrock and (2) experimentally assess if periphyton was N- or P-limited between weak and well-developed karst reaches.

The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to assess the relationship between ambient algal biomass and in-stream nutrient levels along the longitudinal transition of a river from weak to well-developed underlying karst bedrock and (2) experimentally assess if periphyton was N- or P-limited between weak and well-developed karst reaches.

They predicted that river basins should branch at a smaller size in environments where river incision is strong — for example, areas with heavy rainfall, or soft bedrock — or where soil creep is weak.

Both sit on the Senate Health Education Pensions & Labor Committee, which held DeVos's nomination hearing, at which she demonstrated minimal understanding of bedrock education issues and offered only weak support for public schools.