The phrase "a sediment of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a layer or deposit of material, often in a geological or metaphorical context.
Example: "The research revealed a sediment of cultural influences that shaped the community's identity over the years."
Alternatives: "a residue of" or "a layer of".
There are stories in this book in which the ballad-like elements do not irritate or simplify, but work with a prose of considerable sophistication to produce a sediment of complexity worthy of the finest modern writing.
If all his advice were faithfully followed, we'd be a collection of autonomous individuals seeking a string of vaguely uplifting experiences that might perhaps leave a sediment of some sort of spiritual improvement.
Adèle and Emma haven't changed their styles much, either, and as their relationship begins to feel the stress of unresolved differences, the pull of social habits on the body — a paradoxical weight, a sediment of manners that stops the mighty gears of physical attraction and sexual desire — imposes itself with a terrifying force.
But even though I'm not so easily scared now, there's a sediment of creepiness in my brain, laid down by Ira Levin (Rosemary's Baby) and William Peter Blatty (The Exorcist) Harlan Ellison (I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream), Ray Bradbury (Something Wicked This Way Comes), Edgar Allan Poe (everything).
The performance is no less grindingly theatrical than in the other two films, the style of dialogue is no less pat, and the surface psychology of the conflicts is no less mechanistic yet the characters dredge up a sediment of seemingly authentic (if carefully filtered) experience that, if it isn't realized in any complex or artful way, nonetheless leaves something to ponder.
Some of this rubbish had been compacted down into a dark tar, a sediment of concentrated filth, pure filth, filth with no impurities, devoid of everything that was not filth.... On top of this was an assortment of browning marigolds, bits of soggy cardboard (not automatically to be discounted as a calorific source) and freshish-looking excrement (ditto).
A TWT (two-way travel time) interval of 0.1 s corresponds approximately to a water depth interval of 75 m or a sediment interval of 100 m.
provides a sediment record of the last 11,000 cal.
A sediment weight of about 30 g each was collected from each sampling station.
A sediment time of 1 min was therefore selected in subsequent experiments.
The report found that a better understanding of sediment processes in the Missouri River, including the creation of a "sediment budget" – an accounting of sediment transport, erosion, and deposition volumes for the length of the Missouri River – would provide a foundation for projects to improve water quality standards and protect endangered species.
