Sentence examples for underlying sediments from inspiring English sources

Pounding surf, driving winds, and a potent storm surge transformed the marshes by picking apart mats of dead grass, stirring up and disbursing soft underlying sediments, scouring several new channels, and depositing leftover sediment and debris in new areas.

While rivers carry salt from land to ocean, Dr. Gieskes said, the ocean does not increase in salinity because about the same amount of salt is removed to underlying sediments.

Once we arrive in the survey area, we will deploy the airguns and a six-kilometer streamer to acoustically image the underlying sediments.

A particularly interesting use of radiometric dating was in investigating the formation of the manganese nodules that occur on certain segments of the seabed and in the underlying sediments.

The new deposits can create land even though the underlying sediments and sea floor are sinking from geological processes.

Besides retrieving a couple of wooden objects left there 2 years earlier, the researchers slurped up some of the underlying sediments to collect the creatures living there.

Resuspended and bioturbated sediment was characterised by an enrichment in phaeopigments compared to the underlying sediment.

When cap material is placed on top of contaminated sediment, it has both a short-term and long-term hydraulic impact on the underlying sediment.

The geometry of the paleosurface, the architecture, and the acoustic facies of underlying sediment bodies clearly show that this surface represents an alluvial plain containing a moderate- to low-energy floodplain.

In doing so, first insights into various ecological processes which shape the microbial community and impact the overall biofilm functionality could be gained; for instance, the change of a bacteria-dominated nascent biofilm to a diatom-dominated matured development stage resulted in biofilms which stabilized the underlying sediment significantly.

Following dredging, in areas of the canal where contamination has permeated the underlying sediment, EPA will cap with multiple layers of clean material.