Sentence examples for fresh sediment from inspiring English sources

Until about 1900, the river and its distributaries were able to compensate for the subsidence with the amounts of fresh sediment they spread in flood.

Some of New Orleans could be transformed into a "floating city" using platforms not unlike the oil platforms offshore, or, over the short term, into a city of boathouses, to allow floods to fill in the 'bowl' with fresh sediment.

When the great river's flow finally ebbs, the people hold a celebration for what the flood had left behind: tons of fish and fresh sediment and nutrients for their rice fields.

Both runoff by fresh sediment moved onto the surface of the playa and the formation of loose sediment on the surfaces of wet playas are mechanisms that can increase dust emissions.

Also important are a series of relatively wet years to bring supplies of fresh sediment, together with rainfall that is intense enough to break up the surface.

Scientists gather for a first look at a fresh sediment core, hoping that it will offer hard data linking environmental change to human evolution.

All CW sediments were characterised by similar total P content but clearly higher content of anion exchange resin-extractable P in fresh sediments than the source soils.

Under nature's scenario, with many distributaries spreading the floodwaters left and right across the big deltaic plain, visually the whole region would be covered — with fresh sediments as well as water.

Fresh sediments were used to assess the influence of inorganic pollution on enzymatic activity of microbial communities within the area of interest.

Indeed, the Solwara 1 site lies within 500 m of an active volcano that, according to unpublished findings from Tivey and colleagues, deposited 6 million tons of fresh sediments between 2005 and 2011.

To do so, we deployed reactors filled with fresh sediments from Rifle, CO, into groundwater wells at the field research site during the 2010 "Super 8" acetate biostimulation field experiment.