Sentence examples for slump material from inspiring English sources
Both the weak reflectivity and the low seismic coherency of the lower seismic facies support interpretation as slump material.
These have been described as possible exposed sedimentary layers, markers of recessional ponded water or slumped material by previous works.
The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 caused a dramatic a slump in material extraction and use (Fig. 1b).
Unit 1 thins in this discontinuous region, potentially from slumping of material into the graben to the west.
The tests were designed to mimic a sudden slump of wet material slipping down a hillside, says Iverson.
These bonds — issued in the middle of a slump in raw materials — were not that long ago held out as an emblem of emerging-market excess.
The landslides on the sedimentary terrain were mainly shallow, low-volume movements, material slumps and short runout slides some of which activated on slopes that followed the dip of strata, along wavy shear surfaces controlled by impermeable bedding planes.
Forced forward by the mass of newly ejected volcanic material, slumps may creep forward slowly, or surge forward in spasms that have caused the largest of Hawaii's historical earthquakes, in 1868 and 1975.
At the plume top, where the vertical momentum vanishes, the plume is more dense than the atmosphere (Woods 1988; Sparks et al. 1997) and material slumps back and spreads laterally as a buoyancy-driven intrusion near the source (Bursik et al. 1992; Bursik 1998; Costa et al. 2013) and as an ash cloud further downwind(Bursik 1998).
Evidence seems to suggest that the principal agents responsible for the formation of submarine canyons are marine processes, most notably the erosion and transportation of sediments by turbidity currents activated by the slumping of unconsolidated rock material near the heads of the canyons.
Strong stock market performance of the largest cap tech companies that isn't quite as good as the rest of the market is not in any material way a slump.
