Sentence examples for high sediment loads 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].

Consequently, while rivers are usually quite short in length, they carry extraordinarily high sediment loads, which have built up vast swampy plains and deltas, especially along the Sepik, Ramu, Fly, and Purari river systems.

Here I outline five things that need to be done right now to save the Great Barrier Reef: Inshore reefs of the central Great Barrier Reef have suffered dramatically from fertiliser and pesticide run-off and from high sediment loads caused by land clearing.

Fish experience physiological effects from high sediment loads, affecting reproductive behavior (Bilotta and Brazier 2008).

The major process involved the removal of material from the landslide area is water erosion flows with high sediment loads.

The sources of groundwater arsenic are geogenic and perennial mountainous rivers in the Ghaghara Basin supplied high sediment loads.

In the case of surface water, high turbidity is due to high sediment load from runoff (Hobbs et al. 1972).

The Kosi river, with distinctive geomorphology and hydrological characteristics contain a very active regime and very high sediment load.

The Yellow River (Huang He) delivers high sediment load to the sea, forming one of the fastest growing deltas worldwide.

Moreover, high intensity rainfall erodes the top soil of the basin, landslides and slips also occur in many places which add high sediment load to the river.

During the 19th century, most of the rivers draining this region were aggrading braided rivers with a high sediment load sourced from hillslope erosion (Bravard and Peiry, 1993).