Sentence examples for sediments slide from inspiring English sources

As sediments slide down the continental slope and the river is prevented from building a proper lobe — as the delta plain subsides and is not replenished — erosion eats into the coastal marshes, and quantities of Louisiana steadily disappear.

About 8,200 years ago, an earthquake linked to the uplift of Scandinavia, triggered the Storegga Slide; a gigantic undersea sediment slide that sent a tsunami racing across the North Atlantic.

Recent mapping of the margin off Mauritania has revealed a major sediment slide, here called the Mauritania Slide Complex, as it comprises elements of true sliding as well as more mobile distal debris flow.

The pelagic clay within a graben may have a more dominant role in sediment sliding and sediment-restricted faulting (Figure 6) than for décollement propagation.

Surveys of the ocean bottom found freshly collapsed sediment that slid nearly a mile down a 25-degree slope.

The resulting concentrated cellular material was suspended in proprietary buffer, sedimented onto slides, washed, and stained using the anti-cytokeratin antibody anti-CD45 and DAPI.

In the Oligocene Epoch, about twenty-five million yeago Adriaanditsand itsedimentsts began to slide beneath the Tyrrhenian Basin, which lies to the west, between the Italian mainland and the island of Sardinia.

To better understand how sliding sediments create tsunamis, Dr. Synolakis and his colleagues conducted experiments earlier this month at Oregon State University.

The morphological investigations have furthermore made it possible to generate a set of numerical values for statistical analysis of slide sediment rheology.

The region has steep valley slopes with land slide and sediment movement, as debris flow is frequent in these reaches.

The supernatant was poured way and a drop of sediment was transferred to slide.