gravels in English

noun
1
a loose aggregation of small water-worn or pounded stones.
Keep their roots shaded with gravel or some large stones, mulch them now and then and they'll be happy for years.
verb
1
cover (an area of ground) with gravel.
Outside, the back garden is landscaped with a rockery area, lawn, patio area and gravelled area incorporating shrubs and climbers.
2
make (someone) angry or annoyed.
this was a bad strike, and it graveled him to involve himself in it

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1. The alluvial tin, from the Malayan river gravels, is almost exhausted.

2. The Auriferous Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California Volume 6, no

3. The only problem is that this environment lasted the whole time the Auriferous Gravels were being deposited

4. Such rocks are said to be permeable; sandstones and gravels are good examples of permeable rocks.

5. Variable; includes marine clays and silts, alluvial and glacial gravels, sands and silts, and active eolian deposits.

6. The study area, which extends approximately 1036 km2, is mainly composed of quaternary alluvial deposits (clay, sandy clay, gravels, limestone).

7. Once on bedrock, the miner tunneled laterally (drifting), all the while removing the pay gravels to a dump on the surface.

8. Alluvial or Tertiary (Aufgeschwemmte) Series : poorly consolidated sands, gravels, and clays formed by the withdrawal of the oceans from the continents.

9. State: Colorado: Name: Gravels and Alluviums: Geologic age: Quaternary: Lithologic constituents: Major Unconsolidated (Alluvial) Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Gravel (Alluvial) References:

10. Type Region of the Ione Formation (Eocene), Central California: Stratigraphy, Paleogeography, and Relation to Auriferous Gravels By Scott Creely and Eric R

11. Studies of the gravels show them to represent a period of rapid aggradation by a braided river, subsequent to the drainage of glacial Lake Calgary.

12. When Trafalgar Square in London was excavated, the river gravels there were found to be stuffed with the bones of hippopotamus, rhinos, elephants, hyenas, lions.

13. Alluvial sands and gravels of recent origin are found along the stream channels, with minor deposits of organic materials consisting of peat evident in depressions.

14. The sites are shallow groundwater systems consisting of alluvial surficial gravels near Fort Macleod, Alberta, and glaciodeltaic sand deposits at the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, Ontario.

15. Known in antiquity but not properly identi- fied, Chrysoberyl was found mixed with tourmaline and other gems in the gem gravels of Ceylon by at least the late 1600s

16. Red earthy gravels also exhibited a Cryptocrystalline fabric, but with a much lower degree of impregnation by oxides, which were concentrated near pores or surfaces between light-coloured domains, forming …

17. The Auriferous Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of CaliforniaThis book is the most comprehensive publication ever written on the Ancient Tertiary Gold Channels of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California

18. In the foothills on the lateral slopes, coarse deposits have accumulated (agglomerates, gravels, and coarse sands) related to the alluvial fans of a number of torrential streams descending from the neighbouring highlands.

19. The Early Cretaceous paleogeography of the Maritime Provinces is interpreted to have consisted of fault-bound horsts shedding coarse detritus surrounded by an interconnected series of basins that accumulated fluvial sands and gravels and overbank muds with well-developed paleosols.

20. Bilby commented on the word Accreting "'We've had a lot of changing in currents over the past decade or so,' explains Dr Taylor, 'and with the changing currents and increased storm activity in the fall especially, it's undercutting the gravels and the point is literally washing out into the ocean.'

21. The authors examine the substitution materials studies realized in France during the last 10 years with the “Tax on Aggregates” financial support. -substitution of crushed hard rocks to fluviatile sands and gravels, whose reserves are becoming exhausted or sterilized by environmental constraints; -materials not respecting standard specifications of aggregates: 1) soft rocks; 2) soils (fine sands, clayey sands, moraines, superficial deposits); 3) quarries, mines and industrial wastes.