Sentence examples for sediments contain from inspiring English sources

Do these sediments contain toxic materials?

All of these sediments contain trace amounts of iron.

Menapian sediments contain the remains of fossil animals and plants (preserved as spores and pollen) adapted to cold climes.

These sediments contain iron-bearing magnetic particles, which indicate the position of the Earth's magnetic field at the time when the sediments were deposited.

Because most sediments contain mineral mixtures in which not all the minerals are in chemical equilibrium with each other, changes in interstitial water composition or changes in temperature or both will usually lead to chemical alteration of one or more of the minerals present.

Younger sediments contain abundant organic matter, which is easily used by bacteria.

Thus, sediments containing bacterial remains tend to contain more light carbon.

Rocks derived from the metamorphism of carbonate sediments containing calcite or dolomite are marbles.

A kilometre under the seabed at Wilkes Land in east Antarctica, they found sediments containing the pollen of plants that only thrive in the tropics today.

The Messel quarry was mined for more than a century for its oil shales, and it was during these mining activities that workers discovered that the sediments contained beautifully preserved fossils of animals and plants.

On further investigation at Liang Bua, archaeologists in 2003 uncovered similar tools in the sediments containing the hobbit skulls and bones.