Sentences with phrase «unconsolidated sand»
It is dissected by several gullies, cut into the unconsolidated sand by streams (melting from the glacier surface is encouraged by the accumulation of dark wind - blown sand, which absorbs solar radiation)[17].
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The microbes protect otherwise unconsolidated sand from the effects of wind and rain.
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The Navesink Formation is a massive, unconsolidated, medium - to coarse - grained glauconitic sand with minor amounts of terrigenous sandy clay.
The sediments in the area consist of unconsolidated poorly sorted gravely carbonate sands.
silt unconsolidated or loose sedimentary material whose constituent rock particles are finer than grains of sand and larger than clay particles
Oil sands and oil shale - Unconsolidated porous sands, sandstone rock and shales containing bituminous material that can be mined and converted to a liquid fuel.