Sentence examples for turbidity 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.

The inability to manage the waters of Lake Victoria, which is increasing in turbidity, bodes ill for the management of the White Nile.If fissile Sudan finally splits, that may also have repercussions for the Nile.

The result was mass mortality of sea grasses because of increased turbidity from the plankton.

Today, thymol turbidity is rarely used.

The test consists of adding 1 volume of blood serum to 60 volumes of a buffer supersaturated with thymol; the thymol globulin interaction results in turbidity, the degree of which varies with the concentration of globulins.

These were retransported from seashore areas by turbidity currents.

Some are produced by submarine landslides, massive slumping, or dense, sediment-laden, gravity-driven turbidity flows.

The thicknesses of the photic and euphotic zones vary with the intensity of sunlight as a function of season and latitude and with the degree of water turbidity.

Since the end of the Pleistocene Epoch (about 11,700 years ago), turbidity currents have been relatively infrequent, with the consequence that the characteristic deposits laid down by them are as a rule covered by several inches of normal pelagic sediment.

These cores have revealed the importance of turbidity currents—occasional catastrophic torrents of sediment-laden, and hence denser, water flowing downslope under clear water as carriers of great quantities of sediment to the greatest depths in the Atlantic.

Turbidity that is, the cloudiness of the water may be high in lagoons, where shallow water lies over a silt-covered seafloor and where storms and windy periods cause considerable disturbance of the bottom silt.