Sentence examples for sediment sourcing from inspiring English sources
The inconsistency between the 10Be and 26Al in the pebbles and the 10Be in the amalgamated sand is likely due to the combined effect of differential sediment sourcing and longer sediment transport times for the pebbles compared to the sand-sized grains.
A series of surface sediment cores taken in floodplain ponds adjacent to the tidal section of the Connecticut River before and after the event provides insight into differences in sediment sourcing and routing for the Irene event compared to periods of more routine flooding.
The stratigraphic sequences in these coastal sedimentary archives comprise, in many places, a clearly identified anthropogenic signature, notably in ancient harbours, some of which underwent extremely rapid silting up due to massive sediment sourcing generated by new agricultural practices from the Neolithic onwards.
The objective of much sedimentological research is the interpretation of ancient environmental conditions in sediment source areas and depositional sites.
Again, a northern sediment source is generally indicated, but a borehole well to the north near Münster has encountered Middle and lower Upper Devonian marine limestones.
Isle de Jean Charles, he says, lies in a particularly difficult area because it is so far from sediment sources in the Mississippi River and Atchafalaya basin that could be brought in to rebuild the land.
With steady accumulation over protracted periods of time, such deposits tend to become very thick and subside under their own weight, forming troughlike structures parallel to their sediment source.
Sediment source fingerprinting provides an essential means for estimating sediment source contributions, which are needed not only for soil conservation planning but also for erosion model evaluation/refinement.
In other words, the riverbed had turned from being sediment sinks to sediment sources.
Sediment source fingerprinting was used to explore the uncertainty in the contributions of sediment from the three sources.
DRIFTS spectra provided a way to discriminate between the different potential sediment sources.
