SEDIMENT


Meaning of SEDIMENT in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

sediment in the wine

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A filled-in marsh is a sluice for sediment .

Coral species vary in their ability to cope with sediment .

However, a shift in the type of sediment from weathered to unweathered material is noted at this level.

Or, what were the source rocks of a sediment ?

Sandbanks and coastal marshes are now clear, as are the variations in the sediment load of the estuarine waters.

The earthquake triggered submarine landslides that dislodged hundreds of cubic kilometers of sediment on the continental slope.

These later die and so the carbon dioxide eventually finds its way to the sea floor as sediment .

This suggests that the subducted sediment somehow survived as a chemically and physically distinct region large enough to avoid obliteration by diffusion.

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