Sentence examples for plain sediments from inspiring English sources
The region is underlain by relatively soft coastal plain sediments with high intrinsic erodibility.
These coastal plain sediments are comprised of unconsolidated, fine-grained sands, but have interfingering lenses of clay.
The Late Permian Betts Creek Beds form a succession of coal-bearing alluvial-coastal plain sediments in a basin marginal setting within the northeastern Galilee Basin, Queensland, Australia.
This young (<100 Ma) grain population is inferred to be derived by aeolian reworking of Indus plain sediments, which were transported by the northeastward winds blowing across the Thar Desert66, 67.
The palynological and sedimentological analyses on the Poggio Rosso alluvial plain sediments reveal two major climatic fluctuations correlated to a glacial/interglacial cycle just before the Plio-Pleistocene boundary.
Spatial heterogeneities in sediment grain size were found on a small vertical scale in adjacent boreholes, and between boreholes separated by 21-m distance, although coastal plain sediments are considered to be homogeneous.
Moreover, using the Orangeburg scarp as a datum subject to glacial isostatic adjustment, we demonstrate that a 15 m mid-Pliocene sea level above present-day is most consistent with interspersed coastal plain sediment and surface deformation derived from mantle convection and flexural-isostasy.
It was deposited as coastal-plain sediments during the withdrawal of the shallow Cretaceous seas that covered much of the interior of western North America.
Late Miocene river flood-plain sediments in the Central Anatolian Volcanic Province (CAVP) of central Turkey consist of siliciclastic and pyroclastic sediments with paleosols and calcrete.
This results in increased crevasse-channel width, depth and length, and redeposition of eroded lacustrine coastal-plain sediment at the junction of the crevasse channel with the present-day river.
"Liquefaction is a huge problem in Christchurch because the city is built on an alluvial plain, on sediments that are vulnerable to liquefaction," Clague said.
