Sentence examples for a layer of sediment from inspiring English sources

When the waters recede, a layer of sediment is left behind.

Dr. Sanchez bent down, sliced out a layer of sediment and broke it to reveal gooey tar in the middle.

The dating is further strengthened by a layer of sediment just preceding the extinction containing mineral grains providing evidence of one of earth's many periodic reversals of magnetic polarity.

The state has been arguing with itself since the days before statehood — arguing over possibilities that have come and gone, too often leaving a layer of sediment from which the dust now rises, obscuring the future.

The einkorn DNA  - from a substantial quantity of the cereal, most likely in flour form - was recovered by archaeologists from the Maritime Archaeology Trust from a layer of sediment which had lain buried several metres below the seabed.

The Greeks and the Turks drink similar coffee, with a layer of sediment at the bottom, though do not dare go to Athens and order a Turkish coffee or vice versa.

First, they found a layer of sediments that once existed on the shores of the lakes, which had then suddenly collapsed into the water and fell into their depths.

The Daily News reports on the EPA's decision to go forth with two possible plans that would involve removing all of the poisonous sediment currently at the bottom of the canal, rejecting the idea to cover a layer of soft sediment.

Dive observations in a basin on the slope of the central Nankai accretionary prism soon after the 2004 off-Kii Peninsula earthquakes documented a layer of suspended sediment with extremely high turbidity.

He and Mr Goff took core samples from locations between 500m and 1km (0.6 miles) inland, and at each spot, they found a layer of ocean sediment, about 2m down, indicating that a tsunami likely washed over the area hundreds, or possibly thousands, of years ago.

Bottle-conditioned beers contain living yeast, and have a layer of yeast sediment on the bottom of the bottle, which can be seen when the bottle is viewed from the bottom.