Sentence examples similar to Massive sediment load from inspiring English sources

A second major perturbation that continues to the present began ca. 1910 1912 CE, when a massive increase in sediment load was accompanied by a modest increase in water discharge after the native vegetation cover in the headwaters was replaced by pasture.

Presumably basins underlain by fine-grained sediments are much more erodible and produce a much greater sediment load.

The rivers' combined suspended sediment load of about 1.84 billion tons per year is the world's highest.

River flow and sediment load are highest from June to September, when monsoon rains and glacial meltwater reach a maximum.

Dams built on the tributaries of the Mississippi, as far north as Montana, have reduced the sediment load by half.

The Louisiana coast depended for thousands of years on the routine overflow of the Mississippi River to deposit its sediment load and build land.

Gold mining in the region is resulting in significantly increased sediment load in the Mazaruni that is an obvious threat to the ecosystem and all its fishes.

Rivers that originate from deeply incised, fast-moving glacial tongues form distinct sediment-export hotspots: just 15% of Greenland's rivers transport 80% of the total sediment load of the ice sheet.

River dams are also a problem: on the Missouri, which empties into the Mississippi, just six dams retain roughly a hundred million tons of sediment a quarter of the entire sediment load that the Mississippi once carried to the Gulf.

The monstrous dam has held back a sediment load that had been increased through deforestation, agriculture and development.

Elevation gain rates in the case of attenuated conditions were much lower, about twice the historic rates and the low sediment load rates.