Sentence examples for large volume of sediment from inspiring English sources
The areas most likely to contribute to a large volume of sediment, and which are susceptible to a high degree of erosion, get higher priority in treatment.
The large volume of sediment deposited during the initial stage, resulted from of the unique geometry of the Tyee Basin, as influenced by the presence of pre-existing topography on the accreted oceanic basement underlying the Tyee succession.
On the Southern Tablelands and the upper Cox's River subcatchment, a large volume of sediment was liberated by gully erosion early in the post-settlement period, much of which was deposited at break of slope positions below the catchment's headwaters or stored in alluvial benches adjacent to the channel but within the confines of older Holocene alluvium.
Similarly, in August 2009 the rainfall from Typhoon Morakot caused rivers to flood in Taiwan flushing large volumes of sediment into the ocean.
Hillslopes are scoured and washed bare of weathered debris; streams erode gullies and transport large volumes of sediment from the uplands to the plains; broad, braided river channels are developed; and extensive alluvial plains are formed.
Exceptions were nine bypass projects which utilised large volumes of sediment.
This particular form of mountain erosion is well recognized as being particularly efficient at generating large volumes of sediment (Liu and Li 2015; Hovius and Stark 2006).
Widespread in-channel benches deposited since European settlement are stable and appear to be important stores of large volumes of sediment.
Lahar activity is one of the most important processes capable of mobilizing large volumes of sediment and producing devastating effects on human populations and infrastructure.
Nevertheless, modern beaver ponds also trap large volumes of sediment in the high hundred millions to low billions of cubic meters range.
GLOFs are much larger than normal rainfall and nival floods and can mobilize large volumes of sediment from the moraine dams and the stream channels below the dams (Kershaw et al. 2005).
