Sentence examples for heavy sedimentation from inspiring English sources

Cold-water scleractinian corals also appear to be adversely affected by heavy sedimentation and consequently areas with high sediment loads and soft bottoms may not be suitable for coral colonisation or survival [49].

But while these studies mentioned heavy sedimentation in the floodplain, we showed that sediment deposition occurred mainly in the Andean piedmont and immediate foreland in rivers (Parapeti, Grande, Pirai, Yapacani, Chimoré, Chaparé, Secure, Maniqui) with discharges that are not sufficiently large to transport their sediment load downstream in the lowlands.

Extensive basaltic volcanism accompanied that rifting event, followed by a period of heavy sedimentation along a northeast-facing continental margin.

Flood sedimentology and cultivation practices in the long term scenario are considered as important factors in terms of self sustaining over the heavy sedimentation situations.

The river's heavy sedimentation led to the nickname "Chocolate River", due to the resulting brown tint.

During the Pleistocene, beginning roughly 2.5 million years ago, volcanic activity in the Cascades combined with a cool, moist climate to produce further heavy sedimentation across the basin; braided rivers created alluvial fans spreading down from the east.

In plants, gravity has an important effect on the development of small seedlings via the sedimentation of heavy components (statoliths), but gravitational effects in non-specialized cells have also been reported [ 2, 3].

The post-nuclear supernatant was divided and incubated with either reduced or oxidized glutathione, before sedimentation of the heavy membrane fraction to enrich mitochondria (Fig. 6D).

Such systems compensate the magnitude of the gravity vector by preventing sedimentation of relatively heavy structures, like cells, by the application of a high gradient magnetic field.

The increasing trends of the various heavy metals in the sediment core and relatively high rate of sedimentation in the Lake Amponsah were, thus, a direct consequence of policy failure in regulating small-scale mining activities in Ghana.

This pattern reflected the sedimentation of the heavier particles as the water moved away from the river mouth, with only the finer colloidal sediment moving further offshore (Bainbridge et al. 2012).