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This inconsonance brings about much disarrangement, such as pollution, heat island, overburden of resource and waste, etc.
The disease has led to a huge orphan crisis, creating an overburden on an already stressed medical system.
Freeport has blamed the collapse of the overburden pile on heavy rainfall, which reached on average of 40 millimeters last week.
Both tectonic stress and gravitational loading by overburden can produce pressure dissolution.
The remains that emerged from the overburden of centuries of rubbish were themselves the object of intense archaeological interest.
For a hydro-fracture to form and propagate, fluid pressure must exceed horizontal stress plus the tensile strength of the overburden.
Calculations suggest that 1,000 tons of overburden was removed to create a single shaft, which yielded approximately 8 tons of nodular flint.
Continued compaction by overburden then converts lignite into bituminous coal and finally, anthracite coal.
We've made foolish promises, and it wouldn't be right to overburden those future younger workers by keeping them.
Local miners have been digging and collecting here for several years, moving many tons of overburden soil and waste rock in the process.
Conversely, in an extensional basin, older strata would be expected to develop higher grades beneath an overburden of younger rocks.
In-situ methods make more economic sense for deposits covered by more than 75 m of overburden.
The overburden comprises sands and shales with thin coal interbeds, which passes upwards into sandstones and shales without coals.
Localized high-magnitude overpressures are also observed within pressure compartments in the deltaic overburden in the inner shelf.
Equipment was small and most miners removed all overburden by washing it down the creeks.
One bucket-wheel excavator removes the relatively thin overburden and exposes the coal seam.
The current planning application provides for the Moira site to be restored by filling with overburden from mineral operations at Albion.
Another key component to a heavy-equipment fleet is the machine that gets overburden off the site.
The overburden can be divided into three packages based on the geometry of the seismic reflections.
Underneath the muskeg is a layer of sand, rock and overburden, a clay-like material.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Under present circumstances they are crowded in one place and overburden the commerce and the industry of the Pale of Settlement.
If the students are willing to work we do not want to overburden them, Mr. Haskers.
Be careful not to overburden yourself with too many prayers, either mental or vocal.
Every shilling with which they overburden the inferior number, is a shilling saved to their own pockets.
For instance, when using a bulldozer for overburden removing, levelling of spoils after mining is not necessary.
Critics say such stark differences illustrate how illegal immigrants overburden the public health-care system.
In these systems of development the equality of speeds of movement of an overburden and mining stope has to be observed.
If I would have a clear spirit I must not overburden the flesh.
It is not wise to overburden oneself with numerous clothes when traveling.
It does not overburden one with an exposition of scientific facts.
He was afraid to overburden the mind of Corny, and he said nothing more.
We don't want to overburden them or give people responsibility.
Spoor and Godwin pioneered the technique of a shallow leading tine ripper for an offset configuration to reduce the overburden pressure on the following deeper tines.
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