Further, these beds, which we might find loose and unconsolidated in the modern sea, have their fragments closely cemented together in the old limestones.
The rocks, consisting mostly of unconsolidated clays and soft sandstones, with occasional hard layers and irregular concretions, have been cut into innumerable channels, leaving steep-sided remnants of the former plain between.
Unconsolidated sand is largely used in mixing mortars and cements, for smoothing stones used for architectural and monumental purposes, as foundry sand in making moulds for casting, and many other ways.
These scarps in loose unconsolidated gravel and similar material, even under an arid climate, could not be expected to preserve their freshness for many years.
Deep borings show that this great trough is filled to a depth of at least two thousand feet below sea level with recent unconsolidated sands and silts containing logs of wood and fresh- water shells.
Sometimes, indeed, the old lava-streams seem to have licked up beds of unconsolidated gravel, the water-worn stones being now scattered through their under portions.
While within the unconsolidated rock materials near the surface of the earth, it is clear that water can circulate in proportion as the materials are porous and so relatively pervious.
The total effect of slides, slumps, turbidity currents, and strong ocean-bottom currents is the removal of most of the unconsolidated Recent sediments from the continental slope.
Each successive strata laid down on the shelf was abruptly terminated at the shelf break by the processes of erosion which continuously or periodically clear the unconsolidated sediment from the continental slope.
And, finally, repeated experiments by Sorby and others have proved that a very perfect cleavage may be developed in clay (unconsolidated slate) by compression, the planes of cleavage being at right angles to the line of pressure.
It is usually very friable, or in an entirely unconsolidated state.
The shells and fragments, and the grains of calcareous sand, are, as a rule, quickly cemented together by the deposition of carbonate of lime between them; so that limestone is nowhere observed occurring abundantly in an unconsolidated form.
It is plain then that in each of the principal groups of fragmental rocks we must recognize an unconsolidated division and a consolidated division.
Deep borings show that this great trough is filled to a depth of at least two thousand feet below sea level with recent unconsolidated sands and silts containing logs of wood and fresh-water shells.
The greatest destruction occurred in areas where roads and elevated structures were built on unstable ground underlain by loose, unconsolidated soils.
Great light has recently been thrown upon the origin of the unconsolidated white chalk by the deep soundings made in the North Atlantic, previous to laying down, in 1858, the electric telegraph between Ireland and Newfoundland.
In the early stages of its development, especially if in unconsolidated material, the slopes are normally convex inward.
The drift dam being unconsolidated would be quickly cut down by the outflowing water, and the lake level lowered.
In unconsolidated rocks, a frequent cause of movement is the presence of wet and slippery clay layers.
Much less than a commercially valuable placer deposit in unconsolidated surface rocks may start a search for the mother lode.
The largest supplies of water are in theunconsolidated sediments.
The softer, unconsolidated rock materials yield of course more readily than the harder ones, but even strong rocks are often unable to withstand the pull of gravity.
With the exception of the resistant caprock, however, the surficial deposits on the High Plains are for the most part unconsolidated sediments.
Ripple marks--wave-like corrugations produced inunconsolidated materials by wind or water.
The northern edge of this plain is traversed by a stream, which has worn its bed down in the unconsolidated strata, so as to create quite a deep gorge, C.
The geological column of this plain, after passing down through the unconsolidated strata, appears to be composed of various strata of corniferous limestone, Onondaga or hydraulic limestone, and perhaps Medina sandstone.
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