"gravel" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In Switzerland, it is common to use alluvial gravels from the foundations; in London, a mix of brick rubble and some concrete has been used.
- Totara Park is built on alluvial gravel.
- The alluvial gravels were then reworked as shingle fans of several of the larger rivers, notably the Waimakariri, the Rakaia, the Selwyn, and the Rangitata.
- Most soils were either a mixture of rich loess and black loams or sands and alluvial gravels, with an occasional outcrop of ancient rock interrupting the flat relief.
- Ghana has produced gems from alluvial gravels since the 1920s, mostly industrial grade.
- From its bed and from the alluvial gravels of the flood plains along its course, a small colony of diamond diggers had for years been gleaning the odd sparkling stone.
- The alluvial gravels are the outwash products of multiple glaciations that occurred in the Southern Alps during the Pleistocene (Kirk, 1967).
- The vines are planted on deep alluvial gravels.
- The government also is trying to expand Ghana's diamond-mining industry, which has produced primarily industrial grade gems from alluvial gravels since the 1920s.
- Sedimentary gravels are found in the form of alluvial gravels called the Mangus Valley gravels.
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