Sentence examples for pit sediments from inspiring English sources

We report here the genome of the marine methanogen Methanoculleus marisnigri JR1 [11] and that of Methanocorpusculum labreanum Z, a methanogen isolated from tar pit sediments [12].

Gold is recovered from open pits, streambed sediments and weathered primary deposits (quartz veins) using primitive methods.

Not only do the underwater pits trap sediment, they also contribute to the erosion of the bay's floor.

However, this chronology is largely based on near-surface pits and sediment exposures.

In-situ remediation of metals by sulfate reduction has been shown to occur in acidic pit lakes and sediments after the pH was raised to 5 6 by amendment with carbokalk (a waste product from the sugar industry, containing organic carbon and lime) [16 19].

Standard water protection methods (ditch break combined with sedimentation pit) were used to reduce fine sediment (<1.0 mm) loading into the streams.

Archaeologists generally recover plant materials by placing sediments from pits and hearths in water; the plant remains float to the surface, where they may be retrieved.

Given the absence of any obvious bedding planes in the paleodune sediment or grave pit boundaries around any of the burials, excavation proceeded by dividing the sediment into a surface layer and burial levels of set depth.

The sediment in the pit was deposited during the Eocene in a lake in which coal formed.

Preliminary empirical work[28] in the Botney Cut region to the south-east of the Silver Pit, indicates that resuspension events in sediments impacted by trawling lead to larger fluxes of phosphate, silicate and nitrogenous species compared with untrawled sediments (Fig. 7).

Some surfaces of pyrite from the sediments contain deep euhedral pits (Fig. 3).