Sentence examples for quantity of sediments from inspiring English sources

The sea annually receives an immense quantity of sediments, mostly from the Huang He (via the Bo Hai) and the Yangtze River, both of which have formed large deltas.

Our results indicate a well-defined boundary in the resistivity structure that can be used to estimate the quantity of sediments covering bedrock, thus highlighting the utility of this technique in studies of landscape evolution, sediment transport, and sediment budgets.

A total of 0.5 g of concentrated biomass and the same quantity of sediments were used for DNA extraction by using the UltraClean Soil DNA Extraction Kit (MOBIO Laboratories, Inc., CA, USA) according to the manufacturer's instructions.

The river is only 416 miles (670 km) long, but its large discharge of no less than 175,000 cubic feet (5,000 cubic m) of water per second transports a very large quantity of sediment that is rapidly filling the gulf.

But even so, the quantity of sediment heading downstream will still make for a river that is very different, if for only a season, than what it was or what it will be.

Considering the present geomorphological features of the Rossano coast, marked by the presence of a pebble beach that continues below the sea level 5 10 m, it is reasonable to hypothesize that the back-wash flow accumulated a large quantity of sediment in the submerged beach, generating an extended submerged bar.

The Willamette valley is essentially an alluvial plain produced by burying stream-modified lowland with enormous quantities of sediments brought down by tributary streams from the bordering mountains.

The change in climate directly affect water resources quantity and quality; in some areas causes floods transport huge quantities of sediments leading to lower water quality, while other regions suffer from increasing groundwater withdrawals due to draughts.

The targeted fractions, sequential extraction reagents and conditions are shown in Table 2. Three modifications are made compared to the original procedure proposed by Tessier et al. [43] to be consistent with methods used by Koretsky et al. [12] and to allow the use of small quantities of sediments.

The Mississippi River discharges large quantities of sediment and dominates sedimentation regimes in the area.

Rivers transported great quantities of sediment to the Gulf of Mexico and the Arctic Ocean.