Sentence examples for normal sediments from inspiring English sources

On top of the igneous rock lies a mass of broken rock, probably the largest surviving debris particles that fell back on to the crater without melting, and on top of that are normal sediments that formed slowly to fill the crater in the shallow tropical seas that covered the impact area.

However, at the back edge of that sandbar, larval recruits virtually instantly were colonizing the newly reexposed normal sediments as the bar passed by.

Data from Ordovician tuffs show that the majority have P2O5 contents greater than the crustal mean (Figure 3), and that in mixed volcanic-sedimentary successions, tuffs are more phosphorus-rich than the normal sediments [39, 40].

At the bottom of the cores, the team found normal sediments, rich in calcium carbonate from shells — the sign of a healthy ocean.

When the storm water retreats, normal sedimentation resumes and these "storm layers" are preserved, sandwiched between terrestrial sediments.

Comparable results with C/S values of more than twice as high as expected from normal marine sediments were also reported for marine upwelling sediments from the Arabian Sea [35,44].

Iridium occurs in normal seafloor sediments in microscopic quantities, but the iridium spike at the K-T boundary is very large.

In other words, pore pressure in normal compacted sediments is entirely due to the density and height of the fluid column.

Z-2 reservoir was interpreted as early transgressive systems tract normal regressive sediments based on sequence stratigraphic techniques used in the modelling.

This indicates that 2000 mbsf is close to the limit of the biosphere in normal clastic sediments, but the rather rich biosphere survived within coal beds.

One sample from the transition between normoxic, normal saline sediments and the upper halocline of Urania (607-608cC; Fig.  1c) had numerous specimens of what appear to be a single bryozoan morphotype (Fig.  6).