His colleagues hope to search for telltale deposits of sediments around Lake Tahoe that would pinpoint whether--and when--such tsunamis have risen in the past.
On Earth, deposits of sediments known as alluvial fans indicate paths where water sometimes flows downhill.
The increasing height and volume of the Bluefields River led to debris flow and created a colluvium – an unconsolidated deposit of sediments – near the mouth of the river.
Although some aprons are rough, they are more typically smooth because a veneer of sediments deposited during the last 10,000 years or so masks any volcanic relief present.
Annually deposited layers of sediments or ice document hundreds of thousands of years of continuous Earth history.
The sea deposited a thick sequence of sediments containing fossils that indicate water temperatures at least as warm as those of the region today.
However, a large amount of sediments were deposited on top of the film, which resulted in a dispersed CO2 adsorption breakthrough front.
Major deposit of sediments in the foreland basin has their source in the Himalayas under episodic tectonic activity and climate variability.
It corresponds to an alluvial area located east from the Andes mountain range, formed by the deposit of sediments, mainly from the Bermejo and Pilcomayo rivers.
Vast areas of outwash, a glacial plain formed of sediments deposited by meltwater at the terminus of a glacier, are covered by forests.
These lobes are cross-cut by a range of sand and gravel-filled troughs and channels cut by subaqueous outwash, and either overlie or are overlain by horizontal sheets of gravel and diamict deposited from a range of sediment-density flows.
