Sentence examples for weathered rocks from inspiring English sources

The shear strength is between that for highly weathered and slightly weathered rocks.

In addition, providing good-quality core samples is difficult especially in highly fractured and weathered rocks.

In addition, he says, CO2 levels were likely rising during most of the glaciation, and the acidic water that resulted may have weathered rocks in ways similar to warm, humid conditions.

The estimated average of harvestable biomass for bioenergy (sawlog operation + silvicultural treatment) that can be extracted from a broad vegetation group ranged from 11.0 t∙ha−1 in the dry woodlands dominated by ironbarks, mainly on sandstone and weathered rocks to as high as 43.2 t∙ha−1 in the wet tall open forest dominated by Eucalyptus grandis or E. saligna (Table 5).

His Theory of the Earth, published in 1788, proposed the idea of a rock cycle in which weathered rocks form new sediments and that granites were of volcanic origin.

This may be due to the release of F from fresh weathered rocks during the process of weathering.

Mean trace lengths become shorter from fresh to slightly weathered rock, lengthen in moderately weathered rock, then progressively become shorter from moderately weathered rock through highly and completely weathered rock.

Mean joint spacing is wide in fresh rock, becomes closer in moderately weathered rock, and then becomes progressively wider from moderately weathered rock through highly and completely weathered rock.

The effect of partly weathered rock masses is represented with lower mechanical parameters.

On the other hand, weathered rock or rocks subjected to chemical attack could be unsuitable for foundation use.

The delta must have been created long ago because Mars is now bone-dry and the sediment is now weathered rock.