It was constructed on a gravel base, which could absorb surface vibrations.

Your choice is limited to halophytes, but some plants prefer the salty water and sandy base to the usual soft, acid waters and gravel base of many community tanks.

Although surrounded by peat moorlands, Toftingall rests on a gravel base and has a pH of approximately 7.5.

Several pipes were placed through the cellar floors into gravel bases beneath them and then linked to a single pipe running upward in the home to the roof.

A gravel base and steel plank was laid to accommodate the fighters based at Tsili Tsili that were in danger of bogging down when the weather deteriorated.

Many rural roads are not sealed but are built with a gravel base or simply graded clear and maintained from the available earth.

Outdoor military range firing points are not usually covered and may have other configurations, e.g. sloping, a gravel base or hole in the ground.

The gravel base provides drainage, keeping water from standing around the roots of the plants, which will be planted in the pockets of soil and will spread themselves delicately over the rocks.

Back at the airport Rayford and Mac each manned a shovel while a dump truck brought in a gravel base for the runway.

This hilly and winding road is paved for the first 53 miles, and then has a good gravel base to the mining settlement of Central.