Examples of 'surrounding rock' in a sentence

Meaning of "surrounding rock"

surrounding rock: describes the rocks or geological formations that encircle or border a specific area

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surrounding rock
Magma is lighter than the surrounding rock.
Note the surrounding rock formations.
Which dissolves minerals from the surrounding rock.
The surrounding rock becomes worse.
How is magnetite seperated from the surrounding rock.
Proportion of surrounding rock in road drivage with selectivecut roadheaders.
Added structural strength afforded by the surrounding rock.
Better understanding of the surrounding rock properties improves stimulation practices.
We are in the process of developing a sensor to recognise the surrounding rock.
Caves formed at the same time as the surrounding rock are called primary caves.
It dissolves in ground water when water filters through surrounding rock.
Over time water eroded away the surrounding rock creating its distinctive shape.
Some caves are formed at the same time as the surrounding rock.
Groundwater then saturates the surrounding rock or sand, forming an aquifer.
The zones may be chemically distinct from the surrounding rock.

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Also, excessive damage to surrounding rock may lead to mine instability.
With or with out cutting into the surrounding rock.
The surrounding rock must have consolidated very rapidly to allow the three-dimensional preservation.
Any reinforcement of the surrounding rock.
The surrounding rock varies greatly and can be as high as 80.
The nature of the surrounding rock.
The surrounding rock reaches 300 m in height almost all the way through.
A wonderful view of the village and the surrounding rock formation.
Proportion of surrounding rock were up to 57 % in the debris.
The most ancient include images as thoroughly varnished as the surrounding rock.
Would you say that the surrounding rock is the same? why?
They have faulted and sheared boundaries with the surrounding rock.
The acid and microorganisms decompose surrounding rock into clay and mud.
The spherules appear to be much grayer and harder than surrounding rock.
Evaporation is caused by external heat influx from the surrounding rock formation 5 and its environment.
Several blocks containing the rest of the skeleton were sawed from the surrounding rock.
Core axis angles of the intersection contacts and surrounding rock units average 55 to 70 degrees.
They then drive wedges into the openings and separate the block from the surrounding rock.
It has exceptional cutting power and can also cut surrounding rock up to sand-stone hardness.
Graphite is also a mineral that is commonly found within the ore and surrounding rock.
Long Haochen advanced slowly, carefully observing the surrounding rock walls as he did so.
The magma that is produced by partial melting is less dense than the surrounding rock.
Apparently, the block was successfully detached from the surrounding rock and safely taken to Thebes.
The first and fourth pillars were not completely cut away from the surrounding rock.
Primary cave = = = Caves formed at the same time as the surrounding rock are called primary caves.
As the water cools, it precipitates minerals on the surrounding rock.
The anchor end portion may also be chemically bonded to the surrounding rock formation.
Unable to identify due to an unknown poly-metallic substance within the surrounding rock.
A system that drains methane from coal seams and / or surrounding rock strata.
Hundreds of dinosaurs lived and died here, their stories captured in the surrounding rock.
The blastholes are filled with explosives which, when detonated, break the surrounding rock.
The cable 4 may thus continue to exert the prestress tension freely on the surrounding rock.
Mantle plumes rise up because they are hotter and lower-density than the surrounding rock.
Beefs have a 3D morphology that varies according to the surrounding rock.
On Earth, salt domes are salt diapirs in the crust which rise through surrounding rock.

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