Sentence examples for soft sediments from inspiring English sources

Soft sediments contained silted sand.

Mostly littoral or benthic, commonly attached to firm substrata but some burrow in soft sediments.

Abers said that the soft sediments in the soils beneath Mexico City were a significant factor.

Instead, the "tongue stone" must have been buried in soft sediments which hardened later.

These marks formed, and form today, when steady, relatively gentle water currents flow over soft sediments.

At the bottom, some cut up to 600 feet into seabed ooze, enough to distinguish soft sediments from hard rock.

Dr. Sanders's doctoral studies of animal life in soft sediments led him to discover a new subclass of primitive crustaceans.

Some scallops (family Pectinidae) are also cemented, but others lie on soft sediments in coastal waters and at abyssal depths.

Both are underlain largely by the soft sediments and basaltic lavas of the Karoo System and by loose gravels.

Small-scale temporal variation in abundances of fauna in marine soft sediments has long been recognised.

The Dinaledi chamber has been visited by explorers in the past, and the soft sediments in which the bones were found have been badly disturbed.