overburden in English

noun
1
rock or soil overlying a mineral deposit, archaeological site, or other underground feature.
All topsoil and vegetative overburden shall be removed and separately stored along the north eastern boundary of the site to the satisfaction of the Local Planning Authority.
verb
1
load (someone) with too many things to carry.
they were overburdened with luggage

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1. Stripping of Overburden Overburden will be removed to uncover bedrock at active work sites.

2. Overburden had concealed the radioactivity.

3. Next year, a deep overburden was removed.

4. Overburden fellest lymphoidocyte scribaciousness Archeologian clang embarrassment pantophile

5. Quaternary overburden is completely developed with thick layer.

6. At times, without ill intent, we overburden ourselves.

7. The overburden strata movement is a complicated time and space process.

8. These mechanics parameters were the base of dynamic simulation of mining overburden.

9. Resist the temptation to overburden your notes with too much information.

10. Microbial oxidation of ores, tailings, and overburden contribute s to ARD.

11. Soil survey should be adopted in such soil overburden areas.

12. What can be done if the overburden is hard rock?

13. These include footing size, overburden pressure, footing material, soil disturbance, and soil properties.

14. One of the key findings is the role of overburden in bitumen mobilization.

15. At equivalent to the overburden pressures, the soils had of 6–8°.

16. Sohu will strengthen investment in content respect, enlarge Sohu to accept numerous overburden scale.

17. There exits bed separation zone above water - conducting crack zone overburden after coal mining.

18. The Correlations use Standard Penetration Test (N) values corrected for overburden and hammer efficiency (N160)

19. 16 Compaction of the sediments under very high overburden pressure has caused appreciable porosity reduction.

20. Key words: load tests, sands, footing, allowable pressure, settlement, methods of calculation, overburden pressure, soil disturbance.

21. The efficiency with which these machines remove overburden to reach the coal makes strip mining practical.

22. Applications of ground gamma spectrometry in geological mapping in shallow overburden areas is a new attempt.

23. The education system rather than the teachers is to answer for the overburden on the students.

24. The United States says it will not participate because an additional test would overburden schools.

25. The pressure of the weight of overburden, or overlying rock,(Sentencedict) on a formation; also called geostatic pressure.

26. This site was not producing: the laterite overburden was intact and any alluvial gravel remained uncovered.

27. Sonic drilling is effective means for collecting continuous core samples in all types of overburden formations.

28. But on the other hand, it turns out to overburden the food supply of the world.

29. Boart LongyearTM overburden and construction tools were quickly recognized by the industry as reliable and well-designed.

30. With experience in pit reclamation, overburden removal, and landfill construction, Bemas is a reliable partner for the mining and environmental industries.

31. As this naturally carbonated water rises closer to the surface, the pressure of overburden is lessened and the ratio of absorbed CO2 to water declines.

32. The results show that vertical stress is equal to overburden stress at shallow level. Maximum principal stress is sub horizontal stress in the NE direction.

33. It is a surficial expression of the reduction of porosity at depth, due to an increase of actual (unconfined aquifers), or effective (confined aquifers) loading of overburden.

34. Boart Longyear began manufacturing overburden and construction drilling products in 1989 at its Burghaun facility in Germany to serve the foundation construction market

35. Base-of-overburden samples may be taken where glacial deposits are widespread or there is reason to suspect transport of elements of interest.

36. In addition, the sensor, transducer handles the telephone system to still all adopt the high overburden in anti- postting technology postting with semaphore on the same of slab.

37. The mining of alluvial gravel deposits initially involves the mechanised removal of overburden (usually sand and boulders) to expose the layer of diamond-bearing gravel, which is then excavated for processing.

38. Coal companies employ numerous technical experts to study the topography of the land, the extent of the Coal bed, the thickness of the overburden, or overlying rock, and the conditions under which the Coal …

39. However, it is more difficult for bucket wheel excavator to work in overburden stripping than in coal mining, which means that continuous working in the whole year can not be realized.

40. By then the laterite overburden had been completely removed and a number of deep, well-cut pits had been sunk to a depth of # metres, down to the underlying layer of alluvial gravel

41. The EOL diversion consists of four dams and seven dykes about half of which are founded for part of their length on overburden foundations of variable thickness and consisting of heterogeneous deposits of glacial till or sandy and silty alluvia.

42. Burthen: 1 v weight down with a load Synonyms: burden , weight , weight down Antonyms: disburden , unburden take the burden off; remove the burden from Types: overburden load with excessive weight plumb weight with lead saddle load or burden; encumber Type of: charge fill or load to capacity n a variant of `burden' Type of: burden , load ,