Sentence examples for were excavated into from inspiring English sources

Tomb chapels were excavated into the rock of the cliffs overlooking the Nile.

Between 2.5 and 0.5 Ma valleys up to 400 m deep were excavated into the Tertiary basalts of eastern and south Iceland with an average erosion rate of 10 20 cm ka−1.

Angkorian temples are characterised by one or more encircling moats that are excavated into the alluvial substrate.

To access this huge scar which keeps an incurable wound you have to descend to the earth, for the Memorial is excavated into a hollow, like a trench… or a long common gravey.

Put simply, a tunnel has been excavated into the side of a frozen mountain.

Then the tank is excavated into the clay which is spread to a depth of 0.1 m over the sandy saucer to provide the run-off catchment.

Just above the contact with crystalline rocks, a 12-m-deep-reservoir was excavated in 2016 into a massive, dark gray, gummy claystone with chunks of gray sheared quartzite, with no discernible stratification (Fig. 14).

Also in the valley of the river, a 12-m-deep reservoir was excavated in 2015 into a massive, dark gray, gummy claystone with chunks of gray sheared quartzite (Fig. 14).

In the fall of 2000, backfill mine spoils were excavated and reconfigured into dikes around a large L-shape basin and subsequently used as a disposal basin to receive the sediments being dredged from the upper Potomac River estuary near Alexandria, VA (Figs. 1 and 2).

Burrows that measure 5 inches (13 cm) in diameter and 5 feet (1.5 m) long were excavated by lungfish into the Monitor Butte.

Dams rose, submerging villages; minerals were excavated, turning mountains into rubble and dust; and power plants belched toxic ash that smothered fertile fields.