Sentence examples for covered with sediments from inspiring English sources

More-stable regions of Earth's crust tend to be covered with sediments, and only deep drilling will reveal the metamorphic rocks below.

The shallow shelf areas are covered with sediments from the bordering landmasses deposited mainly by the Yangtze and other rivers near the northern part of the sea.

Some hydrothermal vent sites are covered with sediments, which influence the chemical composition of their hydrothermal fluids.

The Nazca plate is not covered with sediments and therefore has a rough surface along the entire Peruvian trench.

Beach is the part of the coast that is constantly washed by waves and tides and which is covered with sediments of various sizes and compositions.

The flatness of the terrain and covered with sediments of the Arabian Platform makes most part of the UAE (the western and central parts) virtually impossible for geologic and seismic investigations.

Over the ages, the basalt was covered with sediment that hardened into arkose, the brownstone that was a favorite building material for multi-story buildings in the late-1800's.

The towering walls of the trench are bare and rocky in places, but overwhelmingly they are covered with sediment that builds up as dead plankton, the glass skeletons from algae called diatoms, and the excrement from all the marine life swimming above, descend and settle.

The dissolution rate of the natural hydrate outcrop covered with sediment was 0.06 cm y− 1.

The substratum should be wet for the footprint to be imprinted; afterwards, it has to dry and be covered with sediment of different composition within a brief period of time.

Oil and gas form on the bottom of shallow seas when micro-organisms decompose under anoxic conditions and later become covered with sediment.