Sentence examples for a variety of sediments from inspiring English sources

Rivers bring a variety of sediments to the coast.

Infills comprise a variety of sediments often with subglacial clay till and meltwater deposits.

M. challengeri lives in burrows at depths of 140-640 m in a variety of sediments.

Most sites were on planar hillslopes, nearly all sites were underlain by 500 mm or more of till on either Cretaceous metamorphic rocks or a variety of Quaternary sediments.

Brown clays are a variety of pelagic sediment, mostly of terrigenous origin, which are composed largely of four different clay minerals: chlorite, illite, kaolinite, and montmorillonite.

The sites represented a variety of riverbed sediment ranging from clay to cobbles.

The term was applied to a great variety of sediments and rocks with a considerable range of composition.

It lives in burrows in a variety of "suitable cohesive" sediments, and is a significant prey item for ling (Genypterus blacodes).

During the Devonian they were a dominant group, occurring in all continents except South America in a variety of marine and freshwater sediments.

Calcareous rocks are formed from a variety of chemical and detrital sediments such as limestone, dolostone, or marl and are largely composed of calcium oxide (CaO), magnesium oxide (MgO), and carbon dioxide (CO2), with varying amounts of aluminum, silicon, iron, and water.

A variety of dating techniques of the sediments surrounding the fossils suggests they are at least 46,000 to 51,000 years old, and direct dating of the bone suggests a maximum age of about 63,000 years.