Sentence examples for Extensive sediment accumulation from inspiring English sources

Given the rapid rates of CaCO3 nucleation and growth under such conditions, it is unlikely that Ca++ concentrations in lake waters ever exceeded these values, and sustained chemical fluxes are therefore required for extensive sediment accumulation.

The Bayesian age-depth model indicates that sedimentation was continuous, with a mean sediment accumulation rate of 64.3 cm/ka spanning the last ca. 14.7 ka.

Objectives of this study were to estimate the amount of recent sediment accumulated within playas, determine how watershed and playa morphometry and land cover influenced sediment accumulation, and assess the role of grass buffers in reducing sediment accumulation.

Over the past decade, intermittent satellite imagery revealed the presence of an extensive plume of resuspended sediments in late winter-early spring with a clear offshore projection coinciding with the region of maximum sediment accumulation in the lake.

Sediment accumulation, they found, suddenly spiked about 2,000 to 1,000 years ago.

The rate of sediment accumulation in gulfs of limited area may be very high.

Boyd, B. M. & Sommerfield, C. K. Marsh accretion and sediment accumulation in a managed tidal wetland complex of Delaware Bay.

Formation of the megabreccia occurred during sediment accumulation, as demonstrated by bedded chert that overlies the cavity.

Berelson, W. M. et al. Biogenic budgets of particle rain, benthic remineralization and sediment accumulation in the equatorial Pacific.

Erosion rates were quantified using sediment accumulation and cosmogenic dating (bedrock and stream sediments).

Once the team calculated rates of sediment accumulation over the past 30,000 years, it went about determining how much of that sediment was dust from neighboring Africa.