Sentence examples for weak sand from inspiring English sources

For clean weak sand, nonlinear elastic theory is appropriate for calculations of stress-dependent rock properties such as compressibility, porosity and permeability.

The town is built on weak sand and clay rock which in most places along the Dorset coast, except for narrow bands at Lulworth Cove, Swanage and Durdle Door, has been eroded and transported away.

If the sound is weak, sand down the edge of the dowel rod.

There is however a very weak alongshore sand feeding of the non-adjacent beaches farther off the mouth.

What the public didn't yet know was that his army was as weak as a sand castle.

This can be attributed to weaker coal and sand shipments.

Sites within the dune field show a sequence of eolian sands and weak buried soils, reflecting either dune migration or sand sheet accretion at ca. 1490, 430, 380 320, 180, and 70 yr ago, which correspond well with continental-scale droughts in the tree-ring record.

In the centre of the capital and the neighbouring towns the buildings are too often made of weak concrete, cut with sand and lacking the steel rods that would fortify them against shocks.

Local complications included areas of highly shattered rock, a generally pinnacled rock surface with average relief of 3 6 m (10 20 ft), locally very deep cutters and pits, areas where dolomite was weathered to sand or weak rock up to 3 m (10 ft) thick, and pockets of flowing sand and mud near the rock surface.

In the G. henleyi CO2 and concatenated sequence networks, one haplotype is unique to the inner sands, showing only a weak connection to the other inner sands haplotypes.

Finally, the results are applied to the interpretation of pressuremeter tests in soils, weak rocks and cemented sands.