Sentence examples for sheet of sediment from inspiring English sources

These crude oils were supplied by the Brazilian oil company PETROBRAS and were characterized by the different Balance sheet of Sediment and Water (BSW) values of 48%, 36%, and 32%.

On the shelves, overlaying a mid-Pleistocene glacial erosional surface, glacial and glacimarine deposits form a sheet geometry interrupted by ridges of sediment that are likely to represent ice-front deposits.

Comparison of the present-day bathymetric setting of both former and contemporary glaciated margins reveals no clear link to the effect of neither ice sheet or sediment load.

This is achieved by tracking erosion and deposition at the bottom of the mobile sediment layer in relation to the amount of sediment present in the sheet-flow and suspension layers.

New shaking started about 10,000 years ago, not long after the melting of the ice sheets at the end of the ice age, which washed away a swath of sediment from the upper Mississippi River basin.

Rather, these contrasts reflect the interplay between bedrock lithology of the continental shelf, rates of sediment delivery, sediment texture, meltwater volume and relative size of ice-sheet drainage basins.

The rate of sediment accumulation is lowest near the escarpments on the low-energy sediment-limited sand sheets (<100 mm ka−1) and greatest near the main streams (>400 mm ka−1) that have more numerous sediment sources.

But runoff is not the only source of sediment.

There's layer upon layer of sediment on top".

Land clearing also increases the amount of sediment pollution.

The samples of sediment and basal ice from beneath the water are expected to help scientists understand whether subglacial lakes act to stabilize or destabilize the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.