Sentence examples for sediments part from inspiring English sources

The confined cyan horizon is interpreted as the top of the Hiji volcano, buried by fine sediments, part of which is exposed along the north coast of the Beppu Bay and dated to around 0.3 Ma based on the K-Ar method (Ishizuka et al. 2005).

Ghostly video images from the seabed show a rudder, a paddle wheel buried in sediments, parts of a giant steam engine and hundreds of glass bottles and other artifacts.

The study area largely comprises alternating layers of sand and clay, which are soft sediments and part of the Ganga Kosi formation.

It was postulated that abiotic transformation of HNA may occur in estuarine sediments, in part due to the presence of redox active minerals (Fe(III) and Mn(IV) oxides).

The study area is largely comprised of alternating layers of sand and clay, which are soft sediments and part of the Ganga-Kosi formation and are of the tertiary age.

Since salinity is a particularly important parameter for ammonia oxidation in coastal and estuary sediments, in part because of its influence on NH4+ adsorption in sediments (Boatman and Murray 1982; Boynton and Kemp 1985), it is thus reasonable that salinity has a strong influence on AOB which might be more important on nitrification in mangrove sediments.

The performance of two well-known equations to predict the depth-averaged alongshore suspended sediment flux [Van Rijn, L.C., 1984. Sediment transport, part II: suspended load transport. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 110, 1613 1641; and Bailard, J.A., 1981. An energetics total load sediment transport model for a plane sloping beach.

So, Mr. Avrin said, a plan is afloat for this summer: a boat is to pull up to Big Egg Marsh with machinery to spray sediment onto part of it.