Sentence examples for little sediment from inspiring English sources

Carrying little sediment, their waters are blackened by tannic acid from the swamps along their courses.

In the hillslope zone, there is little sediment supply to the stream system.

During highstands, upland drainages appear to contribute little sediment to refilling accommodation space in the lagoon.

It has little sediment, 50 to 1,000 meters, compared to 5 to 10 kilometers of sediment in areas around it.

The aim of this work was to improve knowledge about the formation, evolution and present-day dynamics of these bedforms on a narrow, tideless continental shelf receiving little sediment input.

During rainfall events, the preferential flow of water through highly permeable areas of the infiltration bed with little sediment accumulation tended to separate stormwater sediment from infiltrating water, thereby reducing the leaching of nutrients.

Grass strips have a small sediment trapping thickness measured in mm or cm, and grass stems and leaves have little influence on STC, which indicates that reasonable forage cutting may have little influence on sediment removal.

Mineral soil is a conundrum on southeastern U.S. blackwater floodplains because these freshwater ecosystems are known for slow-flowing streams bearing little suspended sediment.

Very few points on our landscape had 137Cs inventories significantly above that which would be predicted from direct deposition of 137Cs on the soil surface; we conclude therefore that there is little net sediment storage on this undisturbed landscape.

Drilling was conducted at topographic highs with no or little unconsolidated sediment cover.

In the riptide of teenage life, little pieces, sediment, kept getting stuck in the same spot until suddenly there it was, something solid, a love.