earth movement in a sentence
Examples
- But even much of this basic research, critics contend, consists of collecting reams of data on earth movements that are not well disseminated to others.
- The caves began to form when earth movement caused the hard limestone to bend and buckle under the ocean and rise above the sea floor.
- "We need to find out if it was an act of earth movement or something else, " he said in a telephone interview from Tucson, Ariz.
- Peter Debreceny, a spokesman for Chicago-based Allstate Insurance Co . " Nobody was aware of this fault and the earth movement was different and unexpected ."
- The damage was much greater near the coast, where the ground tends to be softer and earth movements therefore greater, than in the hills farther inland.
- Chow said investigations showed it was due to shearing of rocks caused by pressure of earth movements and not a rockburst as claimed by the engineers.
- It is drilling wells more than a mile deep in which to put equipment to measure earth movements, and it is monitoring faults under the ocean.
- Earth movements after the Carboniferous period resulted in the up-doming of the area and, particularly in the west, the folding of the rock strata along north south axes.
- "Eugene was a mecca for the Back to Earth movement in the'70s, " said Noa O'Hare, the farmers market marketing director . " Organics found a kernel here ."
- There have also been, of course, earth movements acting on the solid rock at a later time and injection of dikes both parallel to and across the primary foliation.