The particles that form a sedimentary rock by accumulating are called sediment. |
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All types of sediment are found in the Adriatic, with the bulk of the material transported by the Po and other rivers on the western coast. |
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There, a small probe and dissecting microscope were used to isolate diplectanids from the gills or sediment. |
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Trapping of littoral drift sediment, preventing it from reaching downcoast beaches. |
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Where clastic sediment inputs are small, biogenic sedimentation can dominate especially nearshore sedimentation. |
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In all present femora, sediment and other bones obscure the caudodistal part. |
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Rocky or seawalled shorelines, that otherwise have no sediment, present unique problems. |
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Molecular polymerization, resulting from high pressures and temperatures produced by overlying sediment, transforms the resin first into copal. |
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Tidal energy removal can also cause environmental concerns such as degrading farfield water quality and disrupting sediment processes. |
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Catastrophic failure of the containing ice or glacial sediment can release this water over periods of minutes to days. |
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The footprints were found in sediment, partially covered by beach sand, at low tide on the foreshore at Happisburgh. |
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Sedimentary rocks are formed when sediment is deposited out of air, ice, wind, gravity, or water flows carrying the particles in suspension. |
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This sediment is often formed when weathering and erosion break down a rock into loose material in a source area. |
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Some of those processes cause the sediment to consolidate into a compact, solid substance from the originally loose material. |
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The lithostatic pressure in the rock increases due to the weight of the overlying sediment. |
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Under anoxic circumstances, however, organic material cannot decay and leaves a dark sediment, rich in organic material. |
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Mudcracks are a bed form caused by the dehydration of sediment that occasionally comes above the water surface. |
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Such structures form by chemical, physical and biological processes within the sediment. |
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It can be a valuable indicator of the biological and ecological environment that existed after the sediment was deposited. |
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After deposition, physical processes can deform the sediment, producing a third class of secondary structures. |
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The type of sediment that is deposited is not only dependent on the sediment that is transported to a place, but also on the environment itself. |
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This means that coarser sediment particles can be transported and the deposited sediment can be coarser than in deeper environments. |
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When the sediment is transported from the continent, an alternation of sand, clay and silt is deposited. |
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Calcareous sediment that sinks below the lysocline dissolves, as a result no limestone can be formed below this depth. |
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These are large accumulations of sediment transported from the continent to places in front of the mouth of the river. |
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In the quiet water of swamps, lakes and lagoons, fine sediment is deposited, mingled with organic material from dead plants and animals. |
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Besides transport by water, sediment can in continental environments also be transported by wind or glaciers. |
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This cyclic nature was caused by cyclic changes in sediment supply and the sedimentary environment. |
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Catastrophic processes can see the sudden deposition of a large amount of sediment at once. |
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In sedimentology compaction refers to the process by which a sediment progressively loses its porosity due to the effects of loading. |
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When a layer of sediment is originally deposited, it contains an open framework of particles with the pore space being usually filled with water. |
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This form of compactation is a function of the lithology of the base sediment. |
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To avoid injury when digging into sediment it has no cere, but the nostrils come out through hard horn. |
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Sedimentary rock is formed from the accumulation of sediment that becomes buried and compacted together. |
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Deposition of transported sediment forms many types of sedimentary rocks, which make up the geologic record of Earth history. |
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The sinker often had a small container attached to it that would allow for the collection of bottom sediment samples. |
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Earthquakes may be caused by interactions between sediment loading on the sea floor and adjustment by the crust. |
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Vadose stalactitic cement filling an horizontal cavity in a marine coastal sediment, outer platform. |
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The location of the shelf edge break reflects complex interaction between sedimentation, sealevel, and the presence of sediment dams. |
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Coral reefs serve as bulwarks that allow sediment to accumulate between them and the shore, cutting off sediment supply to deeper water. |
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Because subsidence occurred faster than sediment could fill it, the Gulf of Mexico expanded and deepened. |
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Another type of sediment dam results from the presence of salt domes, as are common along the Texas and Louisiana passive margin. |
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This is especially common in arid regions, where there is little transport of sediment by rivers or redistribution by longshore currents. |
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Active accretionary prisms are common in trenches near continents where rivers or glaciers supply great volumes of sediment to the trench. |
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The Lesser Antilles convergent margin demonstrates the importance of proximity to sediment sources for trench morphology. |
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While the ocean is wide, the trench may be far from continental sources of sediment and so may be deep. |
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Submarine canyons transport sediment from beaches and rivers down the upper slope. |
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The most important control is the supply of sediment, which fills the trench so that there is no bathymetric expression. |
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The total sediment deposition rate in remote areas is estimated at two to three centimeters per thousand years. |
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They tend to gather small particulates and thus form beds, which alters sediment deposition and creates a habitat for smaller animals. |
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They show erosion through all substrates, from unlithified sediment to crystalline rock. |
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Landslides, or slides, generally comprise the detachment and displacement of sediment masses. |
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Evidence for these geomagnetic reversals can be found in basalts, sediment cores taken from the ocean floors, and seafloor magnetic anomalies. |
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It is a composite slump with proximal and distal allochthonous sediment masses separated by a large glide plane scar. |
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The bottom surface, buried in sediment, is generally rougher than the top due to a different type of growth. |
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Consequently, the sediment and sand from the beaches is being washed away and deposited elsewhere. |
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While this destroys land in some places, it creates land elsewhere, most noticeably in marshes where sediment is deposited by flowing water. |
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Among the impacts of deep sea mining, sediment plumes could have the greatest impact. |
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The periods indicated by the sediment record correspond to historic records of high river flow recorded by instruments at Vicksburg, Mississippi. |
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In 1993, a group formed to clean it up, adopting the mummichog as a mascot, and has removed thousands of tons of contaminated sediment. |
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The loss of larger plants and reed fringes in eutrophic waters increases erosion of banks and the buildup of sediment on lake floors. |
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Marshes also improve water quality by acting as a sink to filter pollutants and sediment from the water that flows through them. |
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They flourish where the rate of sediment buildup is greater than the rate at which the land level is sinking. |
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The currents there carry the fine particles around to the quiet side of the spit and sediment begins to build up. |
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Eventually, when enough sediment has built up, the beach shoreline, known as a spit, will connect with an island and form a tombolo. |
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For permineralization to occur, the organism must become covered by sediment soon after death or soon after the initial decay process. |
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As the Solent valley flooded and the island eroded, the river received less water flow and more sediment, causing it to become more tidal. |
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The resulting seasonal layering is preserved in an even distribution of clay sediment banding. |
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This term is specifically applied to shallow marine sediment, that contains noticeable quantities of rounded greenish grains. |
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Eroded sediment or solutes may be transported just a few millimetres, or for thousands of kilometres. |
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When the upcurrent amount of sediment is less than the amount being carried away, erosion occurs. |
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When the upcurrent amount of sediment is greater, sand or gravel banks will tend to form as a result of deposition. |
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Recently, ice cores and ocean sediment cores provide more quantitative and accurately dated evidence for temperatures and total ice volumes. |
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Studies of sediment layers at Mezmaiskaya Cave suggest a severe reduction of plant pollen. |
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The trapping of sediment benefits coral by reducing sediment loads in the water. |
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The relay ramps may provide pathways for sediment to be carried into the basin. |
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Glacifluvial sediment may be found in ice-contact environments or proglacial environments beyond an apron of stagnant ice. |
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Besides meltwater, sediment flux is very important for determining glacifluvial landform type. |
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The highest concentration is found in the eastern Irish Sea in sediment banks lying parallel to the Cumbrian coast. |
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The coastlines along the southernmost part are covered with the remains of deposited glacial sediment. |
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A 2014 publication in the Journal of Archaeological Science states that the sediment of Gran Dolina is 900,000 years old. |
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At the contact to sediment infillings, fungi produced haustoria that penetrated and scavenged on the remains of fragmented marine organisms. |
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Artificial levees block spring flood water that would bring fresh water and sediment to marshes. |
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The sediment records show a clear rise and fall of Hg pollution through history. |
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During this time, sources for siliciclastic sediment had been eliminated due to the exceptionally high sea level. |
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The composition of the riverbed at Rotherhithe was often little more than waterlogged sediment and loose gravel. |
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Their appearance ranges from cloudy with sediment to completely clear, and their colour ranges from almost clear to amber to brown. |
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The sediment remaining in the screen was collected, wet-sieved and sorted for fauna and microartifacts such as microliths and beads. |
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In May 2013, fossilized human footprints were found in newly uncovered sediment on a beach in Happisburgh, Norfolk. |
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These form where sediment from the main river blocks a tributary, usually in the form of a levee. |
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The lake may be infilled with deposited sediment and gradually become a wetland such as a swamp or marsh. |
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Rivers that carry large amounts of sediment may develop conspicuous deltas at their mouths. |
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Such storage opportunities are typically increased in catchments of larger size, thus leading to a lower yield and sediment delivery ratio. |
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Fossilised fish and plant remains are found between the layers of sediment. |
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Over millions of years, the sediment deposits added to the islands until the gaps were completely filled. |
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Without sunlight, there could be no explanation for the sediment record on the Earth's surface. |
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Masses of sediment from the adjacent mountains have formed spits around several mouths. |
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Beaver dams trap sediment and improve water quality, and recharge groundwater tables and increase cover and forage for trout and salmon. |
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The water thus gradually deposits the sediment as it runs, creating an alluvial plain. |
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They fed above the sediment surface, but were forced to burrow to avoid predators. |
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Water from the adjacent stream is piped into the top of the channel, sometimes via a header pond, to settle out sediment. |
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Because of the lack of floods, spawning channels must sometimes be cleaned out to remove accumulated sediment. |
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The most important variable characteristics of estuary water are the concentration of dissolved oxygen, salinity and sediment load. |
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However, large numbers of bacteria are found within the sediment which have a very high oxygen demand. |
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The main phytoplankton present are diatoms and dinoflagellates which are abundant in the sediment. |
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Today that process takes almost a year, and sediment, nutrients, and algae can cause problems in local waters. |
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The factors and processes that influence the rate and spatial distribution of sediment accretion within the salt marsh are numerous. |
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Salt marsh species also facilitate sediment accretion by decreasing current velocities and encouraging sediment to settle out of suspension. |
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Inundation and sediment deposition on the marsh surface is also assisted by tidal creeks which are a common feature of salt marshes. |
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Dunes move downstream as the upstream slope is eroded and the sediment deposited on the downstream or lee slope in typical bedform construction. |
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Fossils of invertebrates are found in various types of sediment from the Phanerozoic. |
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This allows the exchange and cycling of oxygen, nutrients, and minerals between water and sediment. |
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These relationships are shown in the following table for the Rouse number, which is a ratio of sediment fall velocity to upwards velocity. |
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If the upwards velocity approximately equal to the settling velocity, sediment will be transported downstream entirely as suspended load. |
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If the upwards velocity is higher than the settling velocity, the sediment will be transported high in the flow as wash load. |
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Wind results in the transportation of fine sediment and the formation of sand dune fields and soils from airborne dust. |
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The overall balance between sediment in transport and sediment being deposited on the bed is given by the Exner equation. |
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Any depression in a marine environment where sediments accumulate over time is known as a sediment trap. |
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One cause of high sediment loads from slash and burn and shifting cultivation of tropical forests. |
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It is a ready marker of the movement of soil and sediment from those times. |
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Fluvial processes include the motion of sediment and erosion or deposition on the river bed. |
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The exception is at any major offset in the bounding fault, where a relay ramp may provide an important sediment input point. |
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This sedimentation often includes very coarse debris such as huge blocks from rock falls, as well as fans of sediment from the basin wall. |
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The size of the oolite reflects the time they have had exposed to the water before they were covered with later sediment. |
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Active continental margins have narrow, relatively steep shelves, due to frequent earthquakes that move sediment to the deep sea. |
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Other topics include chemical transport as part of surface water, sediment transport and erosion. |
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In hydrology, studies of water quality concern organic and inorganic compounds, and both dissolved and sediment material. |
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The most common pollutant classes analyzed are nutrients, pesticides, total dissolved solids and sediment. |
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Over geological time, this organic matter, mixed with mud, got buried under heavy layers of sediment. |
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Most of the sediment within a mudflat is within the intertidal zone, and thus the flat is submerged and exposed approximately twice daily. |
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Marshes contain an abundance of herbaceous plants while the sediment layers consist of thin sand and mud layers. |
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Sheet erosion is the overland transport of sediment by runoff without a well defined channel. |
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They arose along the breakers' edge where the water surge piled up sediment, and behind which sediment was carried away by the breaking waves. |
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As water flows over the ground and along rivers it can pick up nutrients, sediment, and pollutants. |
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It is expected that the continuous input of sediment into the lake will silt up the lake. |
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The large sediment loads are partly due to the extensive land improvements upstream. |
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In northern Europe, the North Sea Basin had formed during the Triassic and Jurassic periods and continued to be a sediment receiving basin since. |
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Active processes form or rework moraine sediment directly by the movement of ice, known as glaciotectonism. |
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Changes in the type of pollen found in different layers of sediment in lakes, bogs, or river deltas indicate changes in plant communities. |
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Deposits of even older glacial sediment exist on every continent except South America. |
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The sea urchin genus Abatus burrow through the sediment eating the nutrients they find in it. |
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The sediment budget takes into consideration sediment sources and sinks within a system. |
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This sediment then enters the coastal system and is transported by longshore drift. |
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The majority of tidal inlets on longshore drift shores accumulate sediment in flood and ebb shoals. |
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Although this may also depend on the inlet size, delta morphology, sediment rate and by passing mechanism. |
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The drift occurs due to waves meeting the beach at an oblique angle, moving sediment down the beach in a zigzag pattern. |
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This is complemented by longshore currents, which further transport sediment through the water alongside the beach. |
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Wave refraction can occur at the end of a spit, carrying sediment around the end to form a hook or recurved spit. |
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Limited knowledge of coastal sediment transport processes often resulted in inappropriate measures of coastal erosion mitigation. |
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Managed retreat is often a response to a change in sediment budget or to sea level rise. |
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When the ocean lands on the gabion, the water drains through leaving sediment, while the structure absorbs a moderate amount of wave energy. |
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Lobes originated as result of ice following shallow topographic depressions filled with a soft sediment substrate. |
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Excess sediment, nutrients, and algae can result in the eutrophication of a body of water. |
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Also, seagrasses trap sediment and slow down water movement, causing suspended sediment to fall out. |
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The most important material characteristic is the sediment grain size, which must closely match the native material. |
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The no-harvest portion of RMZs of 50 feet or 30 feet would result in full protection of sediment filtration for fish-bearing streams on the west and eastsides. |
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Much of this sediment is deposited by turbidity currents that have been channelled from the continental margins along submarine canyons into deeper water. |
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The layer of sediment underlies a cliff on the beach, but after stormy weather the protective layer of sand was washed away and the sediment exposed. |
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Because of the softness of the sediment, which lay below the high tide mark, tidal action eroded it, and within two weeks the footprints had been destroyed. |
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The images were analysed by Isabelle De Groote of Liverpool John Moores University, who was able to confirm that the hollows in the sediment were hominin footprints. |
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Nodules lie on the seabed sediment, often partly or completely buried. |
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Much of this sediment is deposited from turbidity currents that have been channeled from the continental margins along submarine canyons down into deeper water. |
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Much of the state's lands were formed from sediment washed down the Mississippi River, leaving enormous deltas and vast areas of coastal marsh and swamp. |
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Water, and to a lesser but still significant extent, ice, are also responsible for a large amount of sediment transport that occurs on the surface of the earth. |
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The nature of a sedimentary rock, therefore, not only depends on the sediment supply, but also on the sedimentary depositional environment in which it formed. |
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The many layers of sediment that had accumulated on the site could be used to date artefacts in which they were found, and had to be recorded properly. |
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Such land derived runoff of sediment nutrients, carbon, and contaminants can have large impacts on global biogeochemical cycles and marine and coastal ecosystems. |
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Samples taken of the superficial sediment revealed that its physical and chemical properties had not shown any recovery since the disturbance made 26 years earlier. |
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A drainage basin is the source for water and sediment that moves from higher elevation through the river system to lower elevations as they reshape the channel forms. |
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Thus, biofilm growth could significantly enhance biostabilization, with biofilm-infused bed sediments requiring more energy for erosion relative to clean sediment. |
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Researchers looking at sediment, seawater, biota, and seafood found toxic compounds in high concentrations that they said was due to the added oil and dispersants. |
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Oil particles buried in gulf sediment could remain there for 100 years. |
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These form where sediment from a tributary blocks the main river. |
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There is little water mixing in such environments, as a result oxygen from surface water is not brought down, and the deposited sediment is normally a fine dark clay. |
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In addition, the layers of sediment at the bottom of a meromictic lake remain relatively undisturbed because there are no living aerobic organisms. |
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Beds form by the deposition of layers of sediment on top of each other. |
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They have multiple sinuous channels carrying large volumes of sediment. |
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This sediment uplift was accompanied by igneous intrusions and volcanism. |
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The morphology of an alluvial river reach is controlled by a combination of sediment supply, substrate composition, discharge, vegetation, and bed aggradation. |
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Passive margins defined by a large fluvial sediment budget and those dominated by coral and other biogenous processes generally have a similar morphology. |
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Organic materials in a sediment can leave more traces than just fossils. |
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The faulted crust transitions into oceanic crust and may be deeply buried due to thermal subsidence and the mass of sediment that collects above it. |
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Longshore drift is simply the sediment moved by the longshore current. |
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The chemical evidence mainly consists of variations in the ratios of isotopes in fossils present in sediments and sedimentary rocks and ocean sediment cores. |
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Despite the difficulties, analysis of ice core and ocean sediment cores has shown periods of glacials and interglacials over the past few million years. |
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Rivers on that side therefore carry sediment away from the rift valley. |
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This current and sediment movement occur within the surf zone. |
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Sand is largely affected by the oscillatory force of breaking waves, the motion of sediment due to the impact of breaking waves and bed shear from long shore current. |
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Chester's trade had declined steadily since the end of the 17th century as sediment had prevented larger craft reaching the city, spelling the end for the Port of Chester. |
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In general, the fossil record shows a very slow appearance of these lifeforms in the Precambrian, with many cyanobacterial species making up much of the underlying sediment. |
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In ice thrusting, the glacier freezes to its bed, then as it surges forward, it moves large sheets of frozen sediment at the base along with the glacier. |
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This may be the result of a halt in the deposition of sediment. |
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Greensand is also loosely applied to any glauconitic sediment. |
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As an example, the New Brighton spit in Canterbury, New Zealand, was created by longshore drift of sediment from the Waimakariri River to the north. |
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If the osphradia detect noxious chemicals or possibly sediment entering the mantle cavity, the gills' cilia may stop beating until the unwelcome intrusions have ceased. |
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When the continent is far away, the amount of such sediment deposited may be small, and biochemical processes dominate the type of rock that forms. |
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This reduces the levels of oxygen within the sediment often resulting in partially anoxic conditions, which can be further exacerbated by limited water flux. |
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Warm shallow marine environments also are ideal environments for coral reefs, where the sediment consists mainly of the calcareous skeletons of larger organisms. |
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A 2008 study of sediment cores and soil samples further suggests that carbon dioxide uptake via reforestation in the Americas could have contributed to the Little Ice Age. |
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No longer able to carry the full load, much of the sediment is dropped. |
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In other words, the waves sweep sediment together from both sides. |
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Roads or bulkheads built along bluffs can drastically reduce the volume of sediment eroded, so that not enough material is being pushed along to maintain the spit. |
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Salt marshes do not however require tidal creeks to facilitate sediment flux over their surface although salt marshes with this morphology seem to be rarely studied. |
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There is a diverse range and combination of methodologies employed to understand the hydrological dynamics in salt marshes and their ability to trap and accrete sediment. |
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If the incoming sediment flux is low, material is scraped from the overriding plate by the subducting plate in a process called subduction erosion. |
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Most of the oceans have a common structure, created by common physical phenomena, mainly from tectonic movement, and sediment from various sources. |
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This is an oversimplification, because the same section of margin may experience both sediment accretion and subduction erosion throughout its active time span. |
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This normally results in protecting the land behind the halosere, as wave energy dissipates throughout the accumulated sediment and additional vegetation in the new habitat. |
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Thus, nodule mining could cause habitat alteration, direct mortality of benthic creatures, or suspension of sediment, which can smother filter feeders. |
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This kept it free of sediment, unlike most of the tunnel valleys. |
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The rate at which sediment is deposited differs depending on the location. |
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These bedforms are often preserved in sedimentary rocks and can be used to estimate the direction and magnitude of the flow that deposited the sediment. |
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A channel in a tidal flat can see the deposition of a few metres of sediment in one day, while on the deep ocean floor each year only a few millimetres of sediment accumulate. |
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Glaciers carry a wide range of sediment sizes, and deposit it in moraines. |
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They feed by turning on their sides and taking in water mixed with sediment, which is then expelled through the baleen, leaving their prey trapped inside. |
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This expression states that the rate of increase in bed elevation due to deposition is proportional to the amount of sediment that falls out of the flow. |
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Human land development, in forms including agricultural and urban development, is considered a significant factor in erosion and sediment transport. |
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Erosion removes most deposited sediment shortly after deposition. |
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Waves infiltrate dry beaches easily and deposit sandy sediment. |
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The inflow also has to occur in a closed basin, or one with restricted outflow, so that the sediment has time to pool and form in a lake or other standing body of water. |
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Both of these types of granite are formed by the melting of high grade metamorphic rocks, either other granite or intrusive mafic rocks, or buried sediment, respectively. |
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Processes of erosion that produce sediment or solutes from a place contrast with those of deposition, which control the arrival and emplacement of material at a new location. |
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The initial porosity of a sediment depends on its lithology. |
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Remains of organisms found within sediment layers near the mouth of the Mississippi River indicate four hypoxic events before the advent of artificial fertilizer. |
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Sediment from the continent above cascades down the slope and accumulates as a pile of sediment at the base of the slope, called the continental rise. |
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