Sentence examples for littoral sediments from inspiring English sources

The Sunda Shelf is covered with littoral sediments contributed by submerged valleys.

The end of Glacial Period occurred at 17.3 cal kyr BP and was characterized by a sharp decrease in lake level conducive to the development of major flood events and erosion of littoral sediments.

As documented for the Gyra fan, they consist of allochthonous, sublittoral and/or littoral sediments.

This study demonstrates that redox stratification in the littoral sediments of a freshwater kettle lake also varies strongly with season.

The overall goal of the present study is to quantify seasonal changes in the vertical pore water and solid phase geochemistry of shallow littoral sediments in a kettle lake and to determine the influence of such changes on solid phase trace element speciation.

The littoral drift rates determined using this approach show a significant downdrift increase (from ~ 300,000 yds3/yr at the Santa Barbara harbor to ~ 1,000,000 yds3/yr at Channel Islands harbor) and are compatible with the fluvial sediment input and other components of the littoral sediment budget.

We tested our plasmodiophorid-specific primer combination on phagomyxid isolates (Maullinia sp., Maullina ectocarpii, P. diplantherae), and on a selection of marine algae (brown, red, green) and marine (littoral) sediment from the South coast of the UK (n?=?38).

At the northern (updrift) end, the trapping of littoral drift sediments, aided by a 1.3 × 106 m3 sediment recharge designed to remedy severe gap erosion, lead to the growth of salients into tidal tombolos (effectively changing the X/h ratio (distance offshore/depth) on Pope and Dean's (1986) morphology-existence diagram).

The evidence (nearshore morphology, sediment starved beaches, down-drift recharge, shoreline change patterns and a simple sediment budget) indicates that an estimated 80% of littoral drift sediments are directed offshore at Tombolo 5, bypass the breakwaters and downdrift beaches, but may return to shore ~ 2.5 km downdrift.

This study demonstrates that organic-rich, littoral lake sediments undergo significant seasonal variations in pore water and sediment redox stratification.

In a closely integrated system, (sub-) littoral sandy sediments, sandy beaches, and sand dunes offer natural coastal protection for a host of environmentally and economically important areas and activities inland.