Sentence examples for wedge of sediments from inspiring English sources

Queenston Delta, Late Ordovician wedge of sediments that spread across an extensive area of northeastern North America and was thickest in New York and Quebec (the Late Ordovician Period occurred from 461 million to 444 million years ago).

The continental shelf is underlain by a seaward-thickening wedge of sediment that thins westward to a feather edge along its boundary with the crystalline bedrock.

Orogeny is usually accompanied by folding and faulting of strata, development of angular unconformities (interruptions in the normal deposition of sedimentary rock), and the deposition of clastic wedges of sediments in areas adjacent to the orogenic belt.

It was accompanied by deposition of thick, laterally continuous wedges of sediment, sporadic volcanism, and intrusive magmatism.

The regressive Niger Delta comprises of a wedge of clastic sediments of up to 12 km thick formed by a series of offlap cycles (Evamy et al. 1978; Doust and Omatsola 1990).

During floods, turbid plumes of dissolved and suspended materials enter the GBR Lagoon, where winds drive them northward along the coast [123] depositing a thick wedge of muddy sediments up to 15 20 km wide.

3D visualisation of GPR results from four study areas show e.g. wedging out of sediments and fining inland features, as well as several erosion features at the base of the deposit.

A wedge of clastic sediment then began to accumulate at the base of the two underwater precipices, starting the formation of opposing continental shelfs.

An accretion wedge of clastic sediment then started to accumulate at the base of the submerged precipice, entombing the region's first known fossils of complex life.

A wedge of clastic sediment then started to accumulate at the base of the two underwater precipices, starting the formation of opposing continental shelves.

High-angle normal faults bound thick wedges of heterogeneous sediments.