This occurs in soils during compaction, in sediments in the marine environment, and in freshwater environments during partition and sedimentation.
Some could be the accumulation of the sediments in a long-ago sea.
They had their eyes on the sediments in the bank just above the iridium clay.
Layered sediments in the pond contain dormant Daphnia eggs and spores of the bacterial parasite.
But CO2 behaves very differently in marine sediments in waters 3,000 metres or more deep.
Ice-rafted debris was quantified using grain size analysis23 of sediments in core ER1116 (Fig. 3).
Polychaetes play an important role in turning over bottom sediments in the sea.
Nürnberg, D. et al. Sediments in Arctic sea ice: Implications for entrainment, transport and release.
A characteristic part of the sediments in both deep and shallow water is volcanic ash.
Nuernberg, D. et al. Sediments in Arctic sea ice: Implications for entrainment, transport and release.
An experimental study on erodibility of intertidal sediments in the Yellow River delta.
