Sentence examples for sediments act from inspiring English sources

Thus, sediments act as a major sink of chemical pollutants such as heavy metals (Audry et al. 2004).

Since, sediments act as temporary or long-term sinks for OCPs [18] and being hydrophobic OCPs can simply adsorbed to sediments organic matters, thus higher HCH and DDT values were detected.

The less permeable nature of the clay in this area means that the upper clayey sediments act as a cap that stores the magmatic gases in the lower part of this zone.

It is possible that the sediments act as pathogen reservoirs on Magnetic Island, however this was beyond the scope of the present study.

Because sediments act as reservoirs or autochthonous and allochthonous particular matter added or produced in the water column [44] and may represent the habitat for numerous organisms, they are extremely important to study.

Sediments settling on corals may increase disease prevalence indirectly through increased stress and energy expenditure required to remove sediments [28], which could make them more susceptible to infections by microbial pathogens, and/or directly if sediments act as disease reservoirs [23].

Under the prevalent test conditions sediment acts as a sink enhancing most strongly the release of elements from the material.

Previous studies have shown that sediment acts as secondary source of Hg species to the overlying water column in natural conditions.

Further, the sediment E. coli counts reached log10 2.89 CFU/100 mL, well above the EPA proposed safe limit of log10 2.37 CFU/100 mL, and hence sediment acted as a reservoir and source of faecal contamination to the overlying water (Stumpf et al. 2010).

The cable bacterial sediment can be considered a "biogeobattery" (7) where cable bacteria act as both electron conductor and catalyzer of the associated anodic and cathodic reactions, while the surrounding water-saturated sediment acts as a passive electrolytic conductor with a given electric resistance.

Sediments can act as long-term sinks for these and possibly other DLCs.