Sentence examples for carrying sediments from inspiring English sources
To test, we focus on rivers flowing through agricultural areas carrying sediments, chemicals, and fertilizers which are making their way into downstream rivers and lakes.
The first switch occurred near the Cenomanian Turonian boundary with the fluvial systems draining N-NE, instead of W, and carrying sediments derived mainly from NCC.
Carrying sediments from erosion and erupting volcanoes, it built a 2 mile thick delta that underlies the foothills on the east side of the Coast Range near Vernonia in northwestern Oregon.
When tectonic activity first led to the uplift of the Sierra, the river formed as a steep stream eroding into the range's western flank, carrying sediments that would later help form the floor of the Central Valley.
When rivers carrying sediment from the interiors of continents reach the sea, several things happen.
The technology lets scientists identify the last time that long-buried sand was exposed to sunlight and, therefore, determine the rate at which the river naturally built up land by carrying sediment downstream.
In other words, their base level is lowered and they begin to erode their beds, carrying sediment from the continent across the former continental shelf that is now exposed and depositing it at the new coast.
But the idea of rivers carrying sediment across a continent isn't unprecedented: That's what is happening today with the Amazon carrying grains from the Andes across South America, he says.
Sauropelta lived in wide floodplains around rivers that drained into the shallow inland sea to the north and east, carrying sediment eroded from the low mountains to the west.
Rivers flowed down from the mountains and drained into the seaway, carrying sediment along with them that formed the Two Medicine Formation, the Judith River Group, and other sedimentary formations in the region.
Continental shelves with rivers that carry sediments from the continents to the shelf and beyond only at lowstands of sea level and those that drain mountainous areas on high-energy coasts are dominated by quartz sands.
