I rudely pushed past an old man in hip waders to reach the gravel road first. |
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My Internet bird message board has been bombarding me with articles on why gravel is bad. |
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When the train stopped our car was positioned well beyond the station area over the gravel road bed. |
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The female then moves upstream and covers the eggs with more gravel so that they are buried deep within the bed of the river. |
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Waters to head for include canals, rivers, gravel pits, lakes, ponds, meres and reservoirs. |
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Little grebes breed on ponds, small lakes and meres, flooded gravel pits and beet factory settling ponds. |
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Remove enough of the roof shingles, tiles, gravel, or other roofing material down to the tar paper. |
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At the end of a gravel and asphalt yard is a tiki bar and a grill made from half an oil drum. |
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He was halfway through the cigarette when he heard the gate open and someone walk up the gravel drive. |
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Exotic fish such as bass and trout can now breed successfully in the abundant gravel and sand beds and establish feral populations. |
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The germinated seeds were planted in gravel and further incubated under culture room conditions. |
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Especially with the delightful back garden that Adrian designed with sweeps of gravel and curving footpaths. |
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The route goes up and down, deepest point 18m and as shallow as 6m over some sand and gravel banks. |
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The floor was a soft bank of gravel and sand underneath half a metre of scum topped water. |
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One set of gardens concerns landforms made from sand, gravel, topsoil and turf sculpted into sharply edged curves. |
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With her ear to the floor, Yelina could hear gravel whacking and rattling against the bottom of the vehicle, the scrunch of the tires. |
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Then the back door had banged open and Sonny had followed the college boy out to his car, quick long strides crunching over gravel. |
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The front garden is screened from the road with high mature hedging while the gravel driveway has space for several cars. |
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Her scrapes were starting to sting, and they had bits of dirt and gravel sticking to them. |
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I heard shoes scrape against gravel, and I felt Dylan being yanked away from me. |
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A slightly sloping gravel path approaches the cabin and is terraced in two places. |
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Alluvial, colluvial or chemically formed gravel, clayey gravel, sandstone, limestone, tuff, scoria are examples of marginal materials. |
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Wading usually is easy over a gravel bottom of predictable depth and flow, with ample room for backcasts. |
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Minimalists will love the temple stone garden in which sawn tree trunks weave a path through unadorned gravel. |
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A long gravel driveway leads from the main road to the front door and continues to a parking area at the back. |
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With a magnetic belt capable of separating out the rebar iron from the concrete, it ground the concrete to gravel. |
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Dempseys supplied sand and gravel to customers all around the west from their sandpits in Kilkelly. |
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Lazy summer days are made to be spent on the gravel flats and sandy beaches along Northern California's Russian River. |
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The land is on a sand and gravel aquifer, several hundred metres from a reservoir that supplies drinking water to 650,000 homes in Dublin. |
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The paintings have been created using tactile road-surface materials such as sand, grit, gravel and liquid tar. |
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The thin mantle of soil and quartzitic gravel is vegetated with ubiquitous sagebrush typical of the high desert in northeastern Nevada. |
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But before I could open the door, the sound of a car pulling up the gravel driveway behind me distracted my attention. |
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The river is low just now, and the exposed gravel flats made for easy walking. |
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The deposits here are assorted into several grades of gravel for building, paving, and ballast purposes. |
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My stepmother hit loose gravel and ran the vehicle off the road into a stop sign. |
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The gravel lorry swerved off the road after the impact but remained upright. |
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Many of these had been constructed with an asphaltic concrete pavement for the travelled way and gravel shoulders. |
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While it's going to be gravel time soon, also note that while the descent is asphalted, it is very technical and rather narrow. |
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Normally, asphalt road surfaces are built on top of a bed of concrete, which is itself built atop a bed of gravel. |
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Teal and green floor tiles in the kids' bathroom are made of waste products derived from gravel, asphalt, and cement. |
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They are designed to go over any surface, including asphalt, dirt, gravel, grass and mountain trails. |
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They added that the driveway should be properly surfaced with materials other than loose stone or gravel, in the interests of highway safety. |
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To discourage voles or gophers, add a handful of sharp gravel to the planting hole or plant bulbs in wire or fabric baskets. |
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Rodgers knelt on the rubbled limestone road, wincing as his knees were stabbed by the white gravel. |
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The road becomes a gravel track and begins to ascend through silver birch as the hills start closing in. |
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There are trees and bushes, wildlife and fauna rather than gravestones, flower arrangements, gravel and mowed lawns. |
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Select a site on concrete or gravel, rope the site off and display signs warning of hot containers. |
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Laid in gravel and patio, it includes a number of shrubs and plants and offers plenty of room for outdoor dining. |
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Empty the litter box, line it with a garbage bag and either leave it that way or put in a little aquarium gravel. |
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While the trail is primarily gravel and thus not suitable for rollerblading, it offers excellent opportunities for walking, jogging and cycling. |
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Groundwater comes from an aquifer, an underground zone of saturated sand, gravel, or rock that yields significant quantities of water. |
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They prefer waters with a hard bottom of clay or gravel with clear waters and usually in or near aquatic vegetation. |
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Groundwater is water that lies below the soil surface and fills the pore spaces in and around rock, sand, gravel, and other materials. |
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It was an exercise in landscape history before gravel quarrying and roadworks east of Kettering and Wellingborough destroyed the evidence. |
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It's steep, striated with relentless cliff bands, and built with rock so loose the climbing is often like scrambling up a gravel pile. |
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His boots tell the tale of countless treks up and down the sunbaked gravel and silt of the Gila's riverbed. |
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Extraction of gravel in streams and rivers results in sediment-related pollution and a disturbance of natural hydraulic patterns. |
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She presents this stirring song cycle in praise of St Kilda's unique mixture of gravel, asphalt, sand and loose chippings. |
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In the kayak, he is up to his waist in gravel and dirt, for a gaping hole has been ripped in the bottom. |
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Undifferentiated gray to buff sand and gravel, gray to brown lignitic silt and clay, occasional boulders, and rare shell beds. |
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At the far side bear right and park where the road has become blocked with gravel. |
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Sampling reaches were selected to include riffle habitats with substrate composed primarily of cobble, gravel, and boulder. |
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The use of pea gravel on the range floor collected lead dust and created uncontrollable ricochets, while rounds penetrated the overhead baffles. |
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The Lower Eocene Sulov Basin close to the Pieniny Klippen Belt is a kilometre-thick pile of dolomite gravel, rapidly deposited in a fan. |
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A winding gravel path climbs up through what will be a dense forest to a big, noisy waterfall. |
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Once processed the gravel produced can be reused in the construction industry. |
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The shallow soils are derived from fluvial gravel overlain by multiple Holocene volcanic ash deposits and aeolian dust. |
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She dropped her cigarette into a puddle and slid off of the bonnet of my car, landing with a splash on the gravel. |
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Many loose materials are sold by the cubic yard, including cement, dirt, sand, rock, landscaping bark, gravel and cinders. |
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The ground was sandy gravel and some long heavy open boxes and shelves were placed in the room and against the walls. |
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There's an outside seating area laid with gravel and helpfully placed stone benches. |
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Out of the eggs come tiny alevins which soon emerge from the gravel and are called fry. |
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After 90-150 days the eggs hatch, and the alevins stay in the gravel until the yolksac is used up. |
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The paths leading to the hides are of compacted gravel, generally on level ground and well maintained. |
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Apparently, he was recording some sections for a CD at the time, scrabbling around in a gravel tray for sound effects. |
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Photographs of winding towers and cooling towers, of silos, lime kilns and blast furnaces, of coal bunkers and gravel plants. |
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Only 800m west of the Pool there is another kettle hole, but this one was not turned into a mere but filled with gravel, peat and clay. |
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But recovered concrete can be crushed and used as road gravel or aggregate. |
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All these trucks turn up at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon with gravel and sand and aggregate, wanting to dump it. |
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As the sound mutates it becomes lost in a deep storm of white noise and becomes gravel falling down an endless scree slope. |
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He outfitted the animals with rawhide booties to protect their feet from the gravel and rock of the treacherous trails. |
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The shallow soils are derived from fluvial gravel overlain by multiple ash deposits and aeolian dust. |
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On to Redlands Quarry where oystercatchers wheeled around gantries and mountains of gravel. |
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A 3,000-foot section of track was ripped off the gravel bed where 11 of the coaches jumped the track, leaving wreckage for a quarter of a mile. |
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At the gates of his house two guards jump to their feet at the sound of strangers crunching on the gravel. |
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The sun was hot by now, the wind had become brisk, and the melting edges sent mini-avalanches of gravel raining down. |
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But the judder is always there, as though we were watching the film from the bed of a pickup truck traveling on a gravel road. |
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The front and rear suspensions feature dual-leaf springs instead of coils, taking the bumps and jolts out of gravel roads and unforeseen mounds. |
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The result is a generic actioner, in which a gravel voiced man-mountain grabs some guns, smokes cigarettes and blows up stuff. |
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Raised in freshwater tanks and weaned on to fishmeal pellets, fry are transferred to earth ponds or gravel raceways fed by rivers. |
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He's about to replace a blade on the jigsaw when he hears someone shuffling up the gravel road. |
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The wreck lay intact on its port side, its masts and crane jibs spreading themselves across the sand and gravel seabed. |
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The most permeable soils are granular and consist of a fair amount of sand or gravel. |
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Much of the water meadow has now become a lake, flooded after the extraction of gravel. |
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Every Friday night, car stereo blaring, he and Dan would screech to a halt on the gravel, Dan sweet but quiet, Tim snarling with urban accidie. |
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Warning-track gravel crunches underneath the spikes of coltish pitchers loping through their warm-ups in emerald jerseys. |
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Who in their right mind would look forward to driving over 60 miles of muddy washboarded, potholed, narrow gravel road? |
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The Tritium Truck heads north off the main highway, and following a series of country roads comes to a gravel access road. |
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He turned his back, grinding his foot into the gravel of the drive as he walked into the house. |
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I walked slowly up the gravel drive, my feet crunching softly on the stones. |
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The central courtyard is a formal elliptical lawn surrounded by gravel walkways. |
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Each section provided men for the experiment and tons of dirt and gravel were heaped on the pavement and, for a time at least, expedited travel within the area considerably. |
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A much larger gravel lot across the street also exhibits multiple sites of seepage, as if pixelating from below with black matter. |
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The place is twenty-six miles north on blacktop, another three and a half over gravel. |
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The rivers never have seen a dam, and the fish never have seen a hatchery, and the angler wading a remote gravel bar stands in the company of bears and eagles and wolves. |
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Partly gravel, the road is so steep at times that the wheels of our chevy 4x4 spin out beneath us. |
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Without a word, they trudge down the gravel path towards the water's edge and rising sun, Georgie in jandals and Caroline in gumboots, their boat on their shoulders. |
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The gravel in the Brooklyn tones, the acidity in the wit and the raucous laugh remind us we are in the presence of one of the most controversial figures in literary history. |
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Whether you're planning to do the work yourself or get someone in, remember that gravel requires a firm, consolidated base to look good and wear well. |
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There, in his cluttered office at the end of a gravel lane, I came face to face with one of my unsung literary heroes. |
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Now, does anyone else besides me have trouble with weedy gravel paths? |
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Also she has three vacuum cleaners, two lawnmowers, four rakes, eight sacks of topsoil, a pile of gravel up against the garage door, and a garage full of things. |
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The majority of the slabs that constituted the wall were demolished and used for highway gravel. |
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Previous hard concrete channel solutions for riverbank protection are now thought to be inferior to stone gabbions, gravel banks, reed beds and willow trees. |
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I scrambled, panting and reeling, past the rock and onto a gravel shelf. |
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Oh gods, oh gods, she repeated in her mind, just barely registering that she had almost made it out of the clearing and was running across the last stretch of gravel. |
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In more remote areas, landfills and gravel pits ruin their fragile beauty. |
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They dress in clothing from the flophouse lost-and-found and are groomed with a hacksaw and gravel rake. |
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In the background a soundtrack of running water and gravel could be heard. |
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Start your visit with a morning cruise up the graded gravel of Spiral Drive, which coils around Tenderfoot Mountain all the way to its 7,560-foot summit. |
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The stream has now become nothing more than a sediment sluice with rock pools filled-in with sand and gravel, and former riffle reaches submerged in sediment. |
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Sampling locations were selected based on suitable habitat consisting of gravel and cobble substrates associated with riffles and runs and, to a large extent, accessibility. |
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She placed a fountain in a circle of pebbles ringed first by gravel, then by grasses, the whole surrounded by a circular pathway of railway sleepers set into natural stone. |
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A layer of gravel covered the bottom of the aquaria, and terracotta pots were placed in each tank to allow establishment and maintenance of male territories. |
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The lines are covered with crushed gravel and have eliminated flooding while also deterring tunneling rodents and preventing grass from growing into the houses. |
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We have a scented country garden and pond, water features, gravel gardens, arbours, pergolas, a summerhouse, many rare and unusual perennials, and 120 clematis. |
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A gravel road leads about a mile north to the Canadian border. |
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Grow lithophytes in baskets, on cork or on gravel or other planting media. |
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These conduits will extend into the areaway running south below the portico, within the gravel fill, and into the existing underground tunnel at the southeast corner. |
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The Dart sprayed a rooster tail of gravel as he pulled away. |
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Beginning near Dawson City, this lonesome strip of loose gravel stretches 461 miles northeast, ending just shy of the Arctic Ocean in Inuvik, Northwest Territories. |
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At the southern margin, longshore drift induced by the southeasterly winds accumulated carbonate sands and gravel in a spit-platform, at the lee side of a protruding cape. |
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Sprinkle fine, sharp gravel around each bulb to discourage voles. |
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The layers can be almost any combination of granular, stabilised or asphaltic materials, and future versions will also model gravel and rigid pavements. |
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The Ross Club is saving up for a lorryload of gravel to dump on Deep Dean. |
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For some two hours, we drove on rutted gravel running with rainwater. |
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The truck pulls the guitar over railroad tracks, through rocks and gravel, whatever, and the guitar is still speaking. |
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The guard is first seen marching up and down the gravel forecourt, before breaking into pirouettes. |
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It is simply a gravel yard walled off by sand bastions and concrete barriers. |
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If the level is too low, add more gravel before tamping the rest. |
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Salmon reproduction was also hampered by the removal of spawning gravel from the streams in the 1950's, which was used for road surfacing or ballast. |
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Tess had been tethering her horse when she heard shouting over the hill, a car door being slammed, and finally the crunch of wheels on gravel as a car reversed and sped away. |
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Then four-inches of gravel, followed by a layer of geotextile material, if desired, and a one-inch coarse sand setting bed screeded with a 2x4 should be laid. |
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Clayey gravel or gravel, and crushed igneous rocks are commonly used as pavement materials, and cementitious binders are the main stabilising agents. |
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The coarse gravel or crushed ore was introduced into a hole in the centre of the top stone and was rendered to a fine sand. |
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In the mouth region, it is therefore necessary to permanently remove gravel by dredging. |
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Both main or secondary roads might either be paved, or left unpaved, with a gravel surface, as they were in North Africa. |
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They are covered with a mixture of gravel, sand, and mud, and the trenches are used by fish as spawning grounds. |
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Water movement is a significant means by which other material, such as soil, gravel, boulders or pollutants, are transported from place to place. |
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Many small railways were built to serve sand and gravel pits, cement works and the peat and timber extraction industries. |
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The main benefit is one operator can control the loading of grain, coal, gravel, etc. |
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The composition of the riverbed at Rotherhithe was often little more than waterlogged sediment and loose gravel. |
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A pool of black water with mare's tail suggests the Welsh lakes and bogs and white gravel the coastal beaches. |
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Hard rocks such as limestone, sand, gravel, and slate are generally quarried into a series of benches. |
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In Roscoe Bay, jellyfish ride the current at ebb tide until they hit a gravel bar, and then descend below the current. |
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Pot up with compost and topdress with a layer of cactus dressing or very small gravel. |
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Surface characteristics at the sites vary, some being smooth pebbly gravel while others are bouldery. |
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As of 2006, the United States is the world's leading producer and consumer of gravel. |
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Another unusual ice-contact feature is an esker, a long, narrow, steep-sided ridge of glaciofluvial sand and gravel inhabiting a glaciated area. |
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This can sometimes result in gravel becoming compacted and concreted into the sedimentary rock called conglomerate. |
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The action of rivers and waves tends to pile up gravel in large accumulations. |
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We could hear the truck's tires crunching along the gravel road. |
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Large gravel deposits are a common geological feature, being formed as a result of the weathering and erosion of rocks. |
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Both sand and small gravel are also important for the manufacture of concrete. |
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Many roadways are surfaced with gravel, especially in rural areas where there is little traffic. |
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Eggs are laid on the sea bed, on rock, stones, gravel, sand or beds of algae. |
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The female then covers the eggs by disturbing the gravel at the upstream edge of the depression before moving on to make another redd. |
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For example, in sedimentary rocks, it is common for gravel from an older formation to be ripped up and included in a newer layer. |
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All headstones were supposed to be removed, and the cemetery was to be covered in a layer of gravel, then concrete, but this was not done. |
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The channel continues inland south of Chester but its higher reaches have long since been infilled with sand, gravel and mud. |
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The pit was first filled with rocks, gravel or sand and then a layer of concrete. |
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Calendulas, eschscholzias, mesembryanthemums and other annuals grow vigorously and seed freely in gravel. |
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An upscale version of this tried and true method of providing windowsill humidity is the use of plastic 'egg crating' instead of gravel. |
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As I stood there someone stepped crunchingly on the gravel path before the shuttered windows. I turned, and there was Pengelly. |
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Eskers are composed of sand and gravel that was deposited by meltwater streams that flowed through ice tunnels within or beneath a glacier. |
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The surface deposits comprise thick peat in the upper reaches, with glacial boulder clay and glacial sand and gravel in the lower parts. |
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Glacial lakes once filled Lower Wharfedale in which were deposited sand and gravel. |
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These deposits were extracted and now form the basis of the Otley Wetland Reserve, and Ben Rhydding and Knotford Nook gravel pits. |
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A quarry is a place from which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate has been excavated from the ground. |
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Molluscs found in the subterranean gravel appear to have been freshwater species. |
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Wooden sleepers, gravel ballast and low rail weight with the lack overhead catenary and the adjacent area make it uniquely historical. |
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The back stop is infilled with earth, gravel and sand to form a sloping bank facing South. |
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The workers were shovelling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road. |
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The starting place for the tramp is reached over a gravel road that begins on Route 3 about a mile south of Gorham spur. |
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Traditionally, American distillers focused on secondary filtration using charcoal, gravel, sand, or linen to remove undesired distillates. |
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These are ridges of stratified gravel and sand, running northwest to southeast, where the ancient edge of the glacier once lay. |
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You will still get occasional small weed growth within the gravel from wind-borne seeds. |
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Down a one-lane gravel road sits the house burton left seven years ago. |
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Barges still transport gravel from pits at Girton and Besthorpe to Goole and Hull. |
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The coarse sediments, gravel, and sand, generated and moved by rivers are extensively used in construction. |
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To the north of these ridges are deposits of clay, sand and gravel left by a glacial lake. |
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Most rail trails have a gravel or dirt surface and can be used for walking, cycling, and often horse riding as well. |
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Many small airports have dirt, grass, or gravel runways, rather than asphalt or concrete. |
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The geology of the area is layers of gritstone, coal and glacial deposits of sand and gravel. |
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Each season normally consists of 13 rallies driven on surfaces ranging from gravel and tarmac to snow and ice. |
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Silt can smother the spawning beds of fish, by filling in the space between gravel on the stream bed. |
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The female chooses a nest site, where she scrapes a shallow hollow in the loose soil, sand, gravel, or dead vegetation in which to lay eggs. |
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The surfaces of these routes can vary from broken tarmac and gravel to only grass, often having the appearance of byways. |
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Tenders are invited for providing gravel for walking track along national highway green belt from skew bridge to ramavarappadu ring. |
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The cobble and gravel surfaces appeared to have been entirely ploughed out at the centre. |
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As I say for half a mile round the fort it is rutted gravel. We call this sort of gravelly stuff reg. |
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To finish the road surface he covered the stones with a mixture of gravel and broken stone. |
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The soils vary from sandy, sandy clay and clay to shallow young soils of mainly murram or gravel. |
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Aggregate base gravel is laid down as the lowest layer in a road, with fresh concrete or asphalt placed over it. |
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Smaller pieces of concrete are used as gravel for new construction projects. |
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Today the extractive industry utilizes sand and gravel reserves and quarries stone in Wingdale. |
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During spawning season in spring and early summer, the female digs redds in the gravel streambed and deposits her eggs. |
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The quaternary sediments consist of clay, silt, and several grades of sand and gravel. |
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Indurated Pliocene mud and gravel, which are only a few meters thick, overlie the Late Neogene sediments. |
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Sand, rocks and gravel tend to break or damage lube fittings and relief valves. |
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A thin veneer of Cenozoic gravel, sand, clay and mud underlie the coastal plains of Wrangel Island. |
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The gravel will keep the steel pipe from sinking, even if underlying permafrost melts, Repp said. |
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The regulators then shifted their attention to an existing back-channel running parallel to the gravel bar along the river bank. |
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During this period, great accumulations of sand, gravel and mud were deposited further south in Wales, and these gradually consolidated. |
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In the first round, he spun off into a gravel trap, but fared better in the second, in which he finished 14th. |
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It has deposits of gravel and sand, along with the Cementos Apasco factory. |
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When the upcurrent amount of sediment is greater, sand or gravel banks will tend to form as a result of deposition. |
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The harbour lies on a band of weak gravel and clay which is easily eroded by the rivers and sea. |
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Beach placers are formed in sand and gravel deposited along the edge of large bodies of water. |
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He said he would pay them a cent for every two loads of stones or gravel which they should wheel in to make the causey. |
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The famous scientific hoax of Piltdown Man was claimed to have come from a gravel pit at Piltdown near Uckfield. |
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Into the ditch was dumped large amounts of rubble, gravel and stone, whatever fill was available. |
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Rivers diverted into these early rifts deposited sand and gravel to form the Klipheuwel Group in the west, and the Natal Group in the east. |
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Although I love grass, do you think a gravel garden would be a better bet here? |
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He had fallen into a gravel quarry, landing with his chest on the corner of a cocopan and fracturing the ribs on both sides of his sternum. |
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Conglomerates are dominantly composed of rounded gravel, while breccias are composed of dominantly angular gravel. |
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Set in a shallow, amphitheaterlike depression, once a gravel pit supplying material for the Thruway, it covers 11 acres. |
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The Viae glareatae were earthed roads with a graveled surface or a gravel subsurface and paving on top. |
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The Hanson Log Boat was a bronze age boat found in a gravel pit in Shardlow in Derbyshire. |
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The Museumplein is covered almost entirely with a lawn, except for the northeastern part of the square which is covered with gravel. |
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They navigate their riverine habitats traveling just off the bottom with their barbels dragging along gravel, or murky substrate. |
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In 2001, the Dutch government considered the Cleaver Bank as a potential area for mining gravel. |
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Moraine may also form by the accumulation of sand and gravel deposits from glacial streams emanating from the ice margin. |
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It has been reported that the wide gravel spreads between Derwent Water and Bassenthwaite Lake provided the best centre within Lakeland for Neolithic farming communities. |
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The workers were shooling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road. |
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It is defined by size, being finer than gravel and coarser than silt. |
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A conglomerate, therefore, is simply gravel bound together by a cement. |
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It was his custom to wash the tobacco in muscadel and grains, and to keep it moist by wrapping it in greased leather, and oiled rags, or by burying it in gravel. |
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Modern geologists surmise that these formations of clay, gravel and rocks are moraines formed by the action of melting glaciers end of the last ice age. |
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Offshore from Blyth is the Trink, a ridge of limestone ridge covered by gravel, cobbles and boulders and which supports rare species such as the sea spider. |
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Edna gave us a slack-handed wave as I agitated the road gravel. |
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Sand, natural gravel, and crushed stone are used mainly for this purpose. |
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Once worked out, the remaining gravel pits which are usually flooded by the relatively high water table have been reused for a wide variety of purposes. |
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The passion theme embraces the deep and rich colours, sumptuous materials and textures, velvet, brocade, jewels, beads, gold gravel, orchids and red Anthurium house plants. |
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There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel. |
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In Saskatchewan, the term 'grid road' is used to refer to minor highways or rural roads, usually gravel, referring to the 'grid' upon which they were originally designed. |
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Thinly bedded pea gravel consisting of black chert and metaquartzite clasts are commonly associated with indurated sandstones and orthoquartzites. |
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Late Neogene clay and gravel, which are only a few tens of meters thick, rest upon the eroded surface of the folded and faulted strata that comprise Wrangel Island. |
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In addition to oil, gas, and fish, the states along the North Sea also take millions of cubic metres per year of sand and gravel from the ocean floor. |
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Selecting the correct equipment with the proper configuration for recycled materials can be much more difficult than selecting for shot rock or sand and gravel. |
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The Quaternary alluvial deposits cover the study area, which includes lagoonal deposits, recent delta deposits, red clays, gravel and sandy materials. |
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Ground water of seeps usually flows through sand and gravel deposits above an impervious soil layer to the outlet area where it forms a distinct seep line. |
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The construction area includes approximately 100 hectares of streets and GC roads into asphalt or gravel, 150 hectares of lawns and 25 hectares of bushland areas. |
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This species is distributed from Norway south to the Canary Islands and the Mediterranean and is common in the North Sea on beds of sand and gravel. |
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Expert tip Cyclamen don't like wet feet so topdress pots with a gravel mulch and stand containers on pot feet to allow excess water to drain freely. |
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Beneath the alluvium are widespread deposits of sand and gravel, which also occur as gravel terraces considerably above the height of the current river level. |
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Desert shrub and desert grass, common to southern Arabia, are found in Oman, but vegetation is sparse in the interior plateau, which is largely gravel desert. |
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Placer gold comes from the weathering of the primary veins releasing the gold to be transported by water action and concentrated in gravel or sand beds. |
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This led some to the conclusion Hamilton was getting preferential treatment by the FIA as all other drivers who went off into the gravel were not craned back onto the track. |
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These deposits include glacial till, sand and gravel and both terminal and recessional moraines left by receding ice sheets at the end of the last ice age. |
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Southern England possesses particularly large concentrations of them due to the widespread deposition of gravel in the region during the Ice Ages. |
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They occupy a range of seafloors consisting of mud, sand, gravel or rocks. |
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However, the groupings of animals present depend to a large extent on whether the seabed is composed of rock, boulders, gravel, sand, mud or even peat. |
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Plant a variety of small plants, air plants, succulents, or herbs in the soil, and cover the soil surface with small pieces of gravel, shells, sand, or preserved mosses. |
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Quarries where gravel is extracted are known as gravel pits. |
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The new species was collected among moss growing on gravel during a 2011 survey of tardigrades along the coast of Victoria Land, which borders the Ross Sea. |
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The soils, formed from glacial till, sand and gravel are generally fertile and nearly all the land is in arable use growing large areas of wheat, sugar beet and potatoes. |
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You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road. |
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Pyramid Baits manager John Cooper landed the 51lb 6oz mirror after an epic 45-minute battle after targeting a clean area of gravel among some silkweed. |
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Like all anguillid eels, American eels hunt predominantly at night, and during the day they hide in mud, sand or gravel very close to shore, at depths of roughly 5 to 6 feet. |
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Petroleum and natural gas fields, placer deposits, polymetallic nodules, sand and gravel aggregates, fish, seals and whales can all be found in abundance in the region. |
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The Shenandoah or Luray systems are well worth a visit, and are surprisingly dry under foot, with deep gravel paths under the illuminated rock formation displays. |
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A beach, where sand and gravel is deposited, is usually bounded by a deeper marine environment a little offshore, where finer sediments are deposited at the same time. |
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There are also a number of clubs that sail on the open water that has been created as a result of flooded gravel workings which include Hoveringham, Girton, and Attenborough. |
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There was also a short lived brickworks north of the mere, and sand and gravel extraction also took place in the parish, as well as lime kiln activity. |
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Today it is a disused, and largely infilled, sand and gravel quarry. |
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Additional nature conservation areas were created beside the river in the 20th century, when a number of disused gravel pits, were rehabilitated as nature reserves. |
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Built to withstand the attack of small arms such as swords and spears, these walls were made mostly by stamping earth and gravel between board frames. |
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The Hand-bos, a bulwark formed of oaken piles, fastened with metal clamps, moored with iron anchors, and secured by gravel and granite, was snapped to pieces like packthread. |
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Its early successes included saving Hampstead Heath from gravel extraction, Epping Forest, Wimbledon Common, Ashdown Forest, and the Malvern Hills. |
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They eventually made contracts for paving the street inside Rome, including the Clivus Capitolinus, with lava, and for laying down the roads outside the city with gravel. |
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Long decades of gravel exploration and exploitation operations at Alliyah Nature Reserve have wreaked havoc on environment and desert ecology there, he lamented. |
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That night under the porch there was a scrabbly sound, like a dog in a gravel pile, going steadily on under barks and groans and screeches. Something was digging down deeper. |
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A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon shallows of gravel. |
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Because the gravel is relatively poor in silt and the transparency is great, there is enough light enough to allow for the growth of calcareous red algae. |
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The surface of the bank partly consists of gravel and larger cobbles. |
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Cross the boggy area ahead by a gravel track at first, and DAYTRIPPER The forestry plantation borders the road on the right as the road begins to climb and steepens. |
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