Sentence examples for turbid from inspiring English sources

A slumping episode may trigger other slumps farther down the canyon or may create turbid, dense slurries of water and sediment, which flow downslope as turbidity currents.

Colleagues' memoirs and previous biographical work have left little more to say about the costs of sharing a commission or a bedroom with genius.Against that turbid background, Anthony Flint's "Modern Man" sensibly does not try to do too much.

This has caused algae to grow, making the waters turbid, which prevents light from penetrating much below the surface.

A DENSE cloud of diplomatic doublespeak hangs over the turbid waters of the Mekong.

And in a vicious circle, these turbid blooms block out sunlight, causing more sea grasses to die and yet more turbidity.Brian Lapointe, a marine scientist at the Harbour Branch Oceanographic Institution at Fort Pierce in Florida, disagrees.

That is a problem for a great diversity of wild things trying to thrive alongside humans.Beihai sits in a tight-lipped bay on the Gulf of Tonkin, where the rich silt of estuaries is swept and trapped by turbid currents a paradise for molluscs and those that hunt them.

It abuts relatively shallow seas, rendered turbid by the sediment of China's east-flowing rivers 1 billion tonnes of sediment a year dumped by the Yangzi and Yellow rivers alone.

Expected in the autumn of 2007, journalistic wags anticipated (and hoped) the book would be a more accessible read than Mr Greenspan's often turbid statements on monetary policy while chairman of the Federal Reserve.Every cloudThe price of silver fell a little after hitting a 22-year high on March 3rd.

To see how, forgive a quick dip into the turbid waters of EU theology.There are 57 varieties of multi-speed Europe but only two basic types.

This was Mr Wolfram's Eurekamoment: it suggested to him that complex systems in nature be they weather systems, turbid fluid flow, a zebra's stripes or the human mind might all be governed by small and simple sets of rules.The first few chapters of his book explore this possibility in detail, using dozens of examples of cellular automata.

But by the turbid standards of corporate Africa, the company is clean.