For eight feet down in the valley bottom's water-saturated soil, the flame bored its way.

The surface of the pond is converted into water-saturated marshy land.

Soft, water-saturated clays, on the other hand, can also cause serious problems during an earthquake, but for a completely different reason.

"The repository was never designed for water-saturated conditions.

The water-saturated stone must have been considerably eroded, for Daryth had kicked a large amount of it away.

Near the shore, wet snow sits on the fast ice, and the water-saturated snow appears gray.

Includes water-saturated mud and artificial fill.

Most movement is found to be caused by pressured meltwater or very small water-saturated sediments underneath the glacier.

It loomed up like a dark-coloured island from the ocean of white-violet water-saturated cloud formations.

Undisturbed quick clay resembles a water-saturated gel.

A large mass of Jurassic volcanic rock fell onto water-saturated alluvium, combining to form the debris avalanche.

Venus possesses a very dense, oxygen-rich, water-saturated atmosphere.

These were produced by phreatic eruptions when magma contacted the water table and water-saturated sediments along the coast.

But the painting's tonal definition of the natural world - evoking the humid, opaque, water-saturated air of southern China - was revolutionary.

Mudslides develop when water rapidly accumulates in the ground and results in a surge of water-saturated rock, earth, and debris.

Frost heave is the process by which the freezing of water-saturated soil causes the deformation and upward thrust of the ground surface.

The wetlands of Louisiana are water-saturated coastal and swamp regions of southern Louisiana.

The inter-stream ridges are frozen to the bed while the bed beneath the ice streams consists of water-saturated sediments.

Plant species in this community are halophytes adapted to the saline conditions and low oxygen content typically found in the water-saturated soils.

The theory of maar formation is that rising magma super-heats water-saturated earth, far enough below the surface that a high pressure can be contained.

These volcanic explosion craters are formed when magma rises through water-saturated rocks and causes a phreatic eruption.

Terrestrial species tend to have tiny traps that feed on minute prey such as protozoa and rotifers swimming in water-saturated soil.

Mr. Lehman claims that his cyan ink does far less harm to a print surface than rubbing it with a water-saturated cotton swab.

When a sandstorm is accompanied by torrential rain, which sometimes happens, the water-saturated sand dunes in an earlier time could have collapsed and buried life all around.

A clathrate composed of carbon dioxide and methane could have explosively dissociated, thereby liquefying water-saturated sediments.