Sentence examples for sediments accumulation from inspiring English sources

This is mainly due to sediments accumulation, sludge and vegetation development.

Groins interfere with coastal dynamics and sediment transport, leading to sediments accumulation at the updrift side, while at downdrift, the erosive process is anticipated due to the lack of sediments.

Objectives of this study were to estimate the amount of recent sediment accumulated within playas, determine how watershed and playa morphometry and land cover influenced sediment accumulation, and assess the role of grass buffers in reducing sediment accumulation.

Calculated sediment accumulation rates ranged between 0.08 and 0.18 cm/y, with no clear sedimentation pattern (e.g. differential sediment deposition rates) observed between wave crests and troughs.

Sediment accumulation, they found, suddenly spiked about 2,000 to 1,000 years ago.

Exceptions to the general Cambrian sea-level pattern are commonly attributable either to local tectonism or to different rates of sediment accumulation.

Continued rapid erosion of the Himalayas added to the sediment accumulation, which was subsequently carried by mountain streams to fill the subsidence zone and cause it to sink more.

Equally novel but similarly flawed was the assumption that, if a cumulative measure of all rock successions were compiled and known rates of sediment accumulation were considered, the amount of time elapsed could be calculated.

biota-sediment accumulation factor.

(Emery and Uchupi 1984) recorded that the Orange Basin has sediment accumulation up to approximately 7 km.

In carbonate platforms, such steps are sequence boundaries and stratigraphic packages with distinct sediment accumulation patterns.