Sentence examples for kind of sediment from inspiring English sources

Dubai's government is now looking to borrow $6.5 billion to help clear a different kind of sediment: the accumulated debts of over $80 billion left behind by Dubai's years of speculation and irrational exuberance.According to a prospectus issued on October 21st, Dubai hopes to raise the money by selling a $4 billion bond and an Islamic bond, or sukuk, worth $2.5 billion.

In short, the kind of sediment that covers the surface of a continental shelf is determined by the interplay among the tectonic setting, the size of the rivers that empty into it (size based on how much sediment they carry), and the wave energy that affects it, just as is the case with continental margins in general.

The poor sorting and massive character of sediments may indicate a kind of sediment gravity mass flow (expected during backwash).

The first kind of sediment was gravel that is often found in the bottom of stream beds.

Beach, sediments that accumulate along the sea or lake shores, the configuration and contours of which depend on the action of coastal processes, the kinds of sediment involved, and the rate of delivery of this sediment.

The internal parts of the pollen grain are easily broken down, whereas the exine layer, and thus the general form of the pollen grain, is easily preserved in various kinds of sediments; the quality of preservation may vary with different environments.

In Australia, Dr. Uwins stumbled on her nanobes while examining just the kind of compressed sediments that Dr. Szostak proposed as a possible realm of diminutive life.

They noticed three different kinds of rocky sediment that provide evidence for the presence of flowing water, Vasavada said.

Wassmer et al. 2010 demonstrated that AMS applied to unconsolidated tsunami deposits can give information on sediment fabrics and depositional processes, "Its accurate applicability to practically every kind of rock and soft sediment, and the high sensitivity and repeatability of the measurements, allow fabric determination even in rocks lacking classical mesoscopic structural markers".

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.

In order to accurately evaluate the toxicity of this kind of compounds, a new spiked sediment assay using embryos of the Japanese medaka was developed.