sediment
But sedimentation and declining water quality threaten to turn it into a stagnant marsh in a matter of decades.
In the deep sea, the average rate of sedimentation is a centimeter per millennium.
The group is also concerned that sedimentation from logging activity will be harmful to the water.
Elevated sedimentation rates indicate the presence of inflammation.

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Examples of sedimentation

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The roles of sea level and tectonics in controlling sedimentation and facies architecture are recurrent themes.
Sedimentation of the coal-bearing succession was controlled by both autogenic and allogenic factors.
Hardgrounds overlain by metalliferous oxides locally record a hiatus in sedimentation, possibly on a tilted platform.
We present a model of sedimentation in a subsiding fluvio-deltaic basin with steady sediment supply and unsteady base level.
Such a construction would have impeded the natural, southerly flow of water and thus protected the residential area to the south from flooding and sedimentation.
Therefore, a lesser uncertainty relates to possible variations in sedimentation rate.
They represent deposition from suspension and from weak traction currents and sedimentation taking place in separate increments, representing individual flood events.
Clastic sedimentation ceased, most likely in response to a major transgression.
The abundance of conodont elements also shows significant variation in similar chert lithologies, probably indicating fluctuations in sedimentation rate at particular stratigraphical intervals.
After stopping treatment, the patient's sedimentation rate and symptoms should be monitored for at least six months to a year in case of relapse.
The top layers of each cycle represent periods of equilibrium sedimentation (neither net erosion nor deposition).
For instance, as a result of recovery and geological processes (erosion and sedimentation) open-air camps in the latter area are probably heavily underrepresented.
This exacerbates erosion and sedimentation over time and contributes to further reductions in the lowland yield, the wage, and incomes.
Immediately after bead sedimentation and every hour, the percentage of haemocytes containing beads was recorded.
The next sedimentation cycle starts with development of new creeks and gullies.
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