There are erratics some two or three hundred feet above this great moraine, showing that the glacier must have been more than five hundred feet thick when it left this accumulation of loose materials at such a height.
I have distinguished the mineral operations of the earth, by which solid bodies are formed of loose materials, as well as the resolving or decomposing operations which are proper to the surface exposed to the sun and atmosphere.
We come now to the moraines, those walls of loose materials built by the glaciers themselves along their road.
To suppose that such transverse walls of loose materials could be thrown across a valley by a river were to suppose that it could build dams across its bed while it is flowing.
Device to illustrate the different effects of earthquakes in firm rock and in loose materials 88 85.
We seek to know that operation by means of which masses of loose materials, collected at the bottom of the sea, were raised above its surface, and transformed into solid land.
We are thus led to suppose, that the power of heat and operation of fusion must have been employed in consolidating strata of loose materials, which had been collected together and amassed at the bottom of the ocean.
There is another character of glacial action distinguishing it from any abrasions caused by water, even if freighted with a large amount of loose materials.
Something of the kind is occasionally produced by the drag of a wheel grating over rocks covered with loose materials.
The obstruction gave way in the course of time, and the waters of the lake rushed out, carrying along with them huge boulders and a mass of loose materials of all sorts, and scattering them over the plain below.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "loose materials" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
