frozen soil in a sentence
Examples
- There may be 4, 000 Albanian corpses _ victims of Serb forces _ still undiscovered in the frozen soil of Kosovo this winter; around 2, 000 have already been dug up.
- Because methane disperses swiftly in the atmosphere, scientists believe there must be a reservoir of methane somewhere on the planet-- perhaps below the surface or in the frozen soil of Mars'polar regions.
- His parachute, which had seemed to be only half-open, folded around him almost immediately and he plummeted for a few seconds before crashing into the frozen soil at the foot of the tower.
- This water can then infiltrate into the ground, which may have impermeable layers below the surface due to still-frozen soil or rock, leading to rapid increases in pore water pressure, and resultant landslide activity.
- But in a study in the journal Science, Kessler said the arrangement of the rocks is the work of nature, using long seasons of deep cold and the heaving and contraction of water-logged, frozen soil.
- Moorland also bears a relationship to tundra ( where the subsoil is permafrost or permanently frozen soil ), appearing as the tundra retreats and inhabiting the area between the permafrost and the natural tree zone.
- More than 540 kilometers ( 334 miles ) will run over frozen soil that can shift the track as it thaws during the daytime, forcing engineers to devise techniques to keep the ground temperature constant.
- Typically, groundwater is thought of as water flowing through shallow aquifers, but, in the technical sense, it can also contain soil moisture, permafrost ( frozen soil ), immobile water in very low permeability bedrock, and deep Europa.
- Art Advisory : With four historic photos from 1902 outbreak, of workers digging frozen soil to bury cattle ( NNS1 ), carcasses covered with lime ( NNS2 ), laborers undergoing fumigation ( NNS3 ) and a cow showing foot-and-mouth symptoms ( NNS4 ).
- In Ester, Berry pioneered the use of the cold water point and the steam point, used to thaw frozen soil and permafrost in a safer manner for drift mining than boring shafts using hot rocks or underground fires, which rendered the excavations and tunnels far more susceptible to collapse.