Sentence examples for sedimentary load from inspiring English sources
As the rivers meandered downhill and reached the shore, they jettisoned their sedimentary load in a systematic way, starting with the coarsest material — sand, which settled into beaches — and continuing with finer grains of silt and clay, which plumed out into open water.
The accumulated sedimentary load affects both the extension and compression phases of the experiments, but has greater influence in the case of sedimentation during extension.
The second episode produced the deformation of the Cenozoic strata into overlapping east-west-trending, convex northward anticlines that covers more than 200 kilometers in length and 40 kilometers wide, break-through normal faults product of a high sedimentary load that overcomes contraction and the formation of short-displacement blind thrusts in the underlying Cretaceous units.
Because tectonic-induced deformation of the crust could not be the cause of this flow, they proposed that flow was being driven by loading of the offshore basin by the addition of significant sedimentary loads.
The key control for growth faulting is interpreted to result from sedimentary loading, with rapid sedimentary progradation causing the development of rollover synclines by differential compaction and fluid expulsion, and counter-regional growth faults preferentially forming on the basinward side of these synclines.
Burial by sedimentary loading on top of the algal swamp deposits converts the organic matter to kerogen by the following normal diagenetic processes: Compaction due to sediment loading on the coal, leading to compression of the organic matter.
Most oil shale deposits were formed during Middle Cambrian, Early and Middle Ordovician, Late Devonian, Late Jurassic, and Paleogene times through burial by sedimentary loading on top of the algal swamp deposits, resulting in conversion of the organic matter to kerogen by diagenetic processes.
Breakage patterns of the Krapina hominin assemblage are mostly consistent with post-depositional fracturing, including excavation damage and prehistoric fracturing due to sedimentary loading (Russell, 1987a).
The growth faulting was caused by sedimentary differential loading of underlying mobile shale units.
The Permian salt has negligible shear strength on long timescales, and hence, it deforms by differential sedimentary or tectonic loading.
The overpressure in the channels was periodically released during early burial, through the effect of rapid sedimentary and tectonic loading, and possible seismic activity.
