Sentence examples for sediment spill from inspiring English sources

Increasing SSC levels within Rødsand lagoon could be caused by increasing storm intensity or by a sediment spill from dredging activities west of the lagoon in relation to the planned construction of the Fehmarnbelt fixed link between Denmark and Germany.

Pliocene-age turbidites at Macaroni Field were deposited in ponded accommodation in the distal portion of a salt-bounded intraslope basin, immediately inboard of a sediment spill point to the linked outboard basin.

Deposits at Auger Field are contained within point-sourced submarine fans deposited in healed slope accommodation in the more proximal portion of the basin on the flank of a paleo-bathymetric ridge, immediately down depositional dip of a sediment spill point from an inboard basin.

Even with this high variability, the indices appeared to respond to disturbance; for example the IBI and both O/E scores decreased in 1986 following an accidental sediment spill at site 1D (Fig.  3).

An example of increased sediment caused by runoff can be seen in the south-east section of the image, where muddy sediment spills from the River Severn.

Then the sinking of the terrain slows down, and accumulation of sediment spilling off the Andes catches up, gradually filling in the lakes and building the landscape higher.

Usually river sediments spill out in a smooth, sloping fan like the Mississippi delta.

The work would start in the Mississippi River Delta, where we need to re-engineer levees to divert a portion of water flow so that the valuable sediment can spill out of it.

The cores are the first to be taken from such a feature, where the earth is actively splitting apart and creating a new ocean basin for sediment to spill into.

That's what some scientists at the Utrecht University in the Netherlands did, and they believe they now know how sediment deposits spilling out of the mouth of some water channels on Mars were shaped in a series of terraces that look like terraced rice paddies.

All lakes are temporary over geologic time scales, as they will slowly fill in with sediments or spill out of the basin containing them.