sedimentation

sediment | American Dictionary

sediment
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈsed·ə·mənt/
solid material, such as dirt or minerals, that falls to the bottom of a liquid

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In undeformed sediments, the magnetic susceptibility is characterized by an oblate ellipsoid, with the foliation coinciding with the bedding plane.
Differentiated flexural tectonic subsidence has been successively compensated by accumulation of the sediments within the basin.
Her legacy in performance cannot be fixed or sedimented, because her practice has evolved through the lives of her students, and their students.
In all three basins, this mudstone-dominated interval passes into sandstonedominated sediments of a braided fluvial system.
The presence of crinoid fragments indicates an unequivocal marine origin for these sediments, and this is strongly supported by the presence of bioturbation and glauconite.
The association of sediments and fossils became unstable unless it was recorded and authenticated.
The floors of the resurge gullies become covered with resurge breccia and turbiditic sediments.
In field work it is extremely difficult to link the effect of pollutants in sediments or water directly to fish.
Samples were incubated for 2 h and faecal sediments were harvested by sequential centrifugation in 15 ml test tubes.
The sediments, their contained fauna, as well as the intense bioturbation, indicate a well-oxygenated sea floor, below, but probably close to, storm wave-base.
There is a significant reduction in hydrocarbon concentrations in sediments as the distance from the assumed hydrocarbon sources (contaminated sites located uphill) increases.
In addition, the channel-levee system affords potential confining and sorting mechanisms for the different grain-sizes of clastic sediments and organics.
Notwithstanding this, the unoxidized nature of these sediments indicates more-orless permanent water saturation.
There is no evidence that hydrothermal processes played any direct role in the deposition of either the carbonaceous matter or the enclosing sediments.
The fact of recovery of algae from permanently frozen sediments may suggest their resistance to both primary and longterm freezing.
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