Sentence examples for considerable amounts of sediment from inspiring English sources

It is concluded that, beside changes of the beach geomorphology, considerable amounts of sediment were removed from the system (Ghionis et al., 2008).

Soil erosion, caused by the rapid development of forest clearance and agriculture over the past century, along with land-contouring for housing developments in urban areas, has led to considerable amounts of sediment and other matter entering freshwater catchments and the coastal environment.

Although this value was estimated without consideration of sediment transport beyond barriers, it is assumed that a considerable amount of sediment could pass over topographic highs.

One reason is that, sadly, I do not open an old, rare wine, the kind that throws off a considerable amount of sediment and demands decanting, every night.

A considerable amount of sediment waves counter-intuitively migrate in the direction of their gentle stoss slope, i.e. opposite to the expected sense of migration.

Burrow excavation alone has delivered a considerable amount of sediment to invaded river systems in the surveyed sites (3 t km− 1 impacted bank) and this represents a minimum contribution and certainly an underestimate of the absolute yield (submerged burrows were not recorded).

During the retreating period, a considerable amount of sediment would be suspended and transported seaward.

A considerable amount of sediment would be suspended by the passing wave front and leaving behind a small amount deposition in the city area.

Judging from the thickness of the BTL, a considerable amount of sediment may have settled out before the first ROV observations 20 days after the mainshock.

Subduction earthquakes, in particular, mobilize and redeposit a considerable amount of sediment as a result of slope instability and tsunamis (e.g., Seeber et al. 2007; Noguchi et al. 2012; Arai et al. 2013).

The deposition rate of the slope sediment in this piggy-back basin has not been estimated, but it could be high because of the considerable amount of sediment that can be supplied from Shionomisaki Canyon, which is one of the major supply routes of terrestrial sediment.