Sentence examples for young deposits from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, horizonation, clay content, and extractable iron ratios provide a useful tool for correlating young deposits, assigning ages, and interpreting the geomorphic history of complex post-glacial environments.

Current methods of predicting liquefaction potential were largely developed using data from relatively young deposits or deposits that have been frequently disturbed (i.e., areas of high seismicity).

This mechanism has been discounted as the leading cause of groundwater As enrichments throughout the Bengal Basin [2, 5], but as recently proposed, could still play an important role in young deposits at shallow depth [11].

The new data from widely separated portions of the Bengal Basin are consistent with Fe oxyhydroxide reduction as a source of As, but also suggest other potential mechanism that may be important in relatively young deposits.

The rocks that make up the mountains and the basement of the valleys are often strongly deformed, but the young sediment deposited in the valleys usually lies flat.

Others can be found in younger deposits, but those have been put there by geological processes and are actually much older," said Tyler Lyson, a palaeontologist at Yale University.

Analysis of the sediments proved that the fossil came from the Tiaojishan formation as the dealer claimed, and not younger deposits nearby.

The term Quaternary originated early in the 19th century when it was applied to the youngest deposits in the Paris Basin in France by French geologist Jules Desnoyers, who followed an antiquated method of referring to geologic eras as "Primary," "Secondary," "Tertiary," and so on.

The younger deposits sampled are interpreted as small sub-plinian eruptions (see Table 2 for full description).

In the younger deposits from the Busidima Formation at Hadar, the landscape was open wooded grassland with some floodplain environments.

Overlapping the older ones, the younger deposits studied are inset fluvial terraces at +13 16 m (T2) and +8 m (T3).