Sentence examples for sediments ended from inspiring English sources

Previously, scientists thought that the subducting sediments ended up in a sort of geological trash heap along the ocean floor where the two plates meet, near deep sea trenches.

Many of these sediments ended up in the same area as the marine deposits from the inland sea, and both contribute to western South Dakota's present-day geological makeup.

Sediments worn off the Death Valley region were shed both east and west and carried by wind and water; the eastern sediments ended up in Colorado and are now famous for their dinosaur fossils.

But not knowing what was in the plume or the extent to where the sediment ended up makes it hard to say what it's impacts have been," Maclean said.

Meanwhile, eroded sediment ends up on the lake bottom, reducing its storage capacity.

This sediment package ends with a 0.2-m-thick phosphatic hardground (Fig. 5d), which is described in detail by Mutti and Bernoulli (2003).

For those sediments to have eroded and ended up offshore in the marine core, the basin would have had to be exposed by retreat of the ice, the team reports today in Nature Geoscience.

Much of the sediment carried by these meltwaters ended up in the Bryant and Mississippi fans (Fig. 1).

As a result, the sediment it carries ends up in deep water, where it is lost forever.

Indeed, what has ended up in the sediment will also help determine its final resting place.

"You want to filter out the sediment before it can end up in your water heater," he said, adding that while sediment can discolor water, it can also cause unpleasant odors.