Sentence examples for absence of sediments from inspiring English sources

The absence of sediments in the littoral zone here inhibits the transport of coarse material by sea-ice.

In the absence of sediments, xanthan solutions maintained their viscosity for months.

Compared to the more stable cold seeps, vents are characterized by locally high temperatures, strongly fluctuating temperatures, pH, sulphide and oxygen concentrations, often the absence of sediments, a relatively young age, and often unpredictable conditions, such as waxing and waning of vent fluids or volcanic eruptions [4].

The scale of tunnel channels on the inner shelf and the absence of sediment at their mouths are taken to infer catastrophic drainage.

Buried topsoils dated at about 2000 conventional 14C years BP indicate a weakening or absence of sediment influx under wetter conditions towards the end of the Holocene climate optimum.

In the absence of sediment, Ag and CeO2 NPs as well as their corresponding ions were unaffected by centrifugation speed over a 24-h time period, whereas significant differences were observed in the presence of sediment, indicating that sediment properties influence the partitioning behaviour of the nanoparticles.

Therefore, the absence of sediment-rich floods in this regulated river, which formerly deposited large fluvial sandbars from which aeolian sediment was derived, has substantially altered processes by which the prehistoric, inhabited landscape formed, and has also reduced the preservation potential of many significant cultural sites.

In the absence of sediment yield data morphometric parameters may be helpful in assessing most critical sub-watershed.

From sediment volumes and reaction rates in the various zones, total sediment carbon oxidation (m-2) in the presence and absence of sediment reworking can be estimated according to eqn. (7) (reworked) and (8) (defaunated), where the volume of reduced subsurface sediment deposited at the oxic surface (Vrox) is similar to the volume of buried sediment containing labile detritus (V1).

The shock occurred on the subduction interface between the Cocos and Caribbean Plates, an active zone of stress and deformation, and due to the absence of sediment on the ocean floor off Nicaragua, the slip propagated up-dip all the way to the trench bottom, a creator of large tsunamis.

The value of this may be most readily estimated in terms of the additional costs that industrial and municipal users of water would incur through the necessity for water treatment in the absence of sediment retention.