Sentence examples for sediments like from inspiring English sources

The described units feature sedimentological traits similar to historical deposits formed by large tropical cyclone events, but also include characteristics of upper-regime flow sedimentation not shown by historical sediments, like long (>10 m) wavelength antidunes and transverse ribs.

Researchers had been particularly concerned that some places filled with loose sediments, like those around Kent, would experience large-scale liquefying of soils in a major earthquake.

Thus, it appears that continuous cycling of sediments like those of the present time has occurred for 1.5 to 2 billion years and that these sediments have controlled oceanic composition.

In sediments like sand, the grains stack on top of one another and create a skeletal network.

The sediments, like milk-dunked cookies, carry liquid water in their pores, which allows more water to be recycled back into Earth's mantle.

Sediments like clay are well known for providing such barriers, and at depth, phyllosilicates of the clay, mica, and serpentine groups are abundant candidates for providing similar barriers.

Survival of cells over millenia of years in dry sediments or sedimentary rocks on Earth would have important implications for the search for life on other planets, where sediment-like structures exist (Squyres & Knoll, 2005).

Those images of monumental debris — angular masses that appear to emerge from sediment like alien geology — remain transfixing.

"I've been looking for sediment like that for years," said one of the scientists, Dr. Jeffrey P. Donnelly, a geologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod.

The density measurement should be non-invasive and should cover a wide range of sediment like materials.

The core-logger PHAROS was designed at Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut, Groningen, the Netherlands to measure activity concentration of sediment like materials.