Sentence examples for sedimentary materials from inspiring English sources
Plants and animals were diverse during the Carboniferous and had a decisive effect on the accumulation of sedimentary materials.
The mountains, which rise at most to 5,220 feet (1,590 m), consist of igneous and sedimentary materials, including limestones and slates.
The more sophisticated of these also provide for detection of the depths of stratification in sedimentary materials on the lake bottom.
Furthermore, the major features of the sulfur isotopic curve for evaporites versus Phanerozoic time is similar to that of the strontium-87/strontium-86 strontium-87/strontium-86 strontium-87/strontium-86sedimentaratioteriand during this time interval.
The gas radon-222 (222Rn) escapes from the ground and decays rapidly in the atmosphere to lead-210 (210Pb), which falls quickly to the surface where it is incorporated in glacial ice and sedimentary materials.
Other main concerns of clastic petrology are the mode of transportation of sedimentary materials, including the transportation of clay, silt, and fine sand by wind; and the transportation of these and coarser materials through suspension in water, through traction by waves and currents in rivers, lakes, and seas, and sediment transport by ice.
Turbidity currents transport and differentially deposit sedimentary material, while eroding the interplain channels.
If this sedimentary material was subjected to great geological pressure, it was then transformed into combustible hydrocarbons.
Typically these occur because of a volume change of sedimentary material and the subsequent redeposition of the same material to fill voids.
The Atlantic continental shelves, on the other hand, show little or no tectonic deformation and bear a thick veneer of sedimentary material.
"We could see from satellite photographs, that a fan of sedimentary material – like an alluvial delta produced by a river of water on Earth – appeared to have spread through the Gale Crater from one point on its northern rim and had passed very close to Curiosity's landing place," says Dietrich.
