Use "sediment" in a sentence

1. It comes from an incredibly rich glacial sea sediment

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2. With dead bone leaves and base sediment shucked off,

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3. It was going to lie in that same spot on the bottom of the Lhar til the sediment it lay in eroded

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4. The wine was a schoolyard red, the oak it aged in was rough and there was quite a bit of sediment

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5. It would also provide an explanation for the fact that polystratic fossils are found in more than one layer of strata or type of sediment and that fossilisation preserved even soft tissue and fragile detail in the many samples that have been discovered

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6. It would have shot up into the atmosphere for miles at supersonic speeds, bringing with it millions of tons of sediment from friction caused by the water rushing past miles of rocks through the cracks on its way up to the surface of the planet, and sweeping sediment with it, as it rushed out into the air and onto the surface of the Earth

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7. While the water was released (through the cracks and the sides of the rocks eroded away by the friction and resulting in sediment that was deposited onto the surface of the Earth) the floating landmasses that were still cushioned by water, would start to move away from each other

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8. There would be a total wipe-out of all life, while some of the animal and plant remains would be buried under the massive quantities of sediment that would spew out of the crack and later roll out sideways, away from the cracks onto the surface of the planet

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9. It lay on its side in the murky sediment of the ocean floor, broken in half

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10. disturb the sediment, cloud the water

11. Bar: shallow water obstruction to navigation composed of sand, gravel or other sediment

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12. dark matter particles are captured and sediment within earth due to earth’s

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13. shade of red, as if some murky sediment had been dredged away

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14. You grope sediment with your toes tossing clouds into the current

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15. sediment in the bottom of the bottles

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16. One of the specialist team holds up a small brown bottle filled with liquid and thick sediment

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17. The concern had been that if the bomb hit too close to the bottom, the thickness of the accumulated sediment would absorb the explosion without damage

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18. Images of storm clouds, sediment, rocks, various metallic objects, and sidewalks formed in the mind

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19. “The fuel is trapped in the sediment layer on the ocean floor; it actually occurs on land as well, but do not be concern with trivia

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20. Ordinarily, trolls could digest anything, food or not: fish entrails, mastodon marrow, the yeasty sediment that collected at the bottom of their beer kegs

21. She waved to Alicia and Thelma, filled the pan with sediment, and began to sluice out the sand

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22. She had trouble holding the pan at the desired angle and all the sediment washed out

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23. “He’s showing the flag,” Ernie commented to Monty as they drained sediment from the sluice box

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24. The sediment in the pod was that Ted was right, if they were going to survive at all, they needed to leave and try to find a way out

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25. Imagine, with the vast landscape of the splendid world spread out before you, not moving freely in it on and on rejoicing and praising God, but sitting quite still lamenting in one spot, stuck in sediment

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26. develop due to aggravation from others and/or to whisk away sediment that has fallen into or

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27. Her mind was a chalice filled only with love, and so clear and bright was the love that even at the bottom, when she stirred it up to look, there wasn't a trace of sediment

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28. He knew it went straight to his lungs and added yet another black layer of deadly sediment but it felt like it went straight into his stomach

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29. Lees: Sediment or dregs; the substance on the bottom of the wine glass, expressing ease and self-indulgence that is undisturbed

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30. these three that link the earth and the sea, just as rivers carry the sediment of the earth into the sea

31. analogy is that of sediment and ice cores and how scientists sample thin slices of to get a snapshot of

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32. My group of warriors slowly mounted a slight promontory rise in the relatively flat terrain, which had been created by sediment buildup from the two great rivers that used to flow through the pass

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33. Moments later he was mired in a wash of stirred up sediment as the ball and chain clanged into the ocean floor

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34. The sediment cleared and he looked around at the surrounding coral reefs and exotic fish species that were in abundant display

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35. It was hard to see anything because of all the stirred up sediment and the perfusion of bubbles in the water

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36. The rim, the sediment that stands for all the water and all the land of the globe

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37. Charles noticed that at the bottom of the basin there was a sort of white sediment sticking to the sides of the porcelain

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38. Reassuringly, their place, where none could hear them talk, being secluded, reassured, the decocted beverages, allowing for subsolid residual sediment of a mechanical mixture, water plus sugar plus cream plus cocoa, having been consumed

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39. So you checked out the generator and found the lines all, what, gummed up, with microorganisms, sediment?”

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40. After all this was done the whole was filled with water, in order that the fluid, by penetrating into the most minute interstices, might deposit a sediment which would close them more surely and perfectly than it would be possible to do by hand

41. Notwithstanding her jealousy of the Vincys and of Mary Garth, there remained as the nethermost sediment in her mental shallows a

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42. white sediment sticking to the sides of the porcelain

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43. Sand volcanoes, or sand blows, are formed during earthquakes when water is squeezed out from subsurface layers, carrying sediment with it that erupts on to the surface

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44. Presently they came to a place where a little stream of water, trickling over a ledge and carrying a limestone sediment with it, had, in the slow-dragging ages, formed a laced and ruffled Niagara in gleaming and imperishable stone

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45. Something definitive had happened to her while he slept: the sediment that had accumulated at the bottom of her life over the course of so many years had been stirred up by the torment of her jealousy and had floated to the surface, and it had aged her all at once

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46. FILTERING: Allow water to stand in its container so that sediment settles at the bottom

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47. Allow sediment to settle and it can be used again

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48. We can best gain some idea of past time by knowing the agencies at work; and learning how deeply the surface of the land has been denuded, and how much sediment has been deposited

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49. Croll shows, by calculating the known amount of sediment annually brought down by certain rivers, relatively to their areas of drainage, that 1,000 feet of solid rock, as it became gradually disintegrated, would thus be removed from the mean level of the whole area in the course of six million years

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50. Shells and bones decay and disappear when left on the bottom of the sea, where sediment is not accumulating

51. We probably take a quite erroneous view, when we assume that sediment is being deposited over nearly the whole bed of the sea, at a rate sufficiently quick to embed and preserve fossil remains

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52. The most skilful geologist, if his attention had been confined exclusively to these large territories, would never have suspected that during the periods which were blank and barren in his own country, great piles of sediment, charged with new and peculiar forms of life, had elsewhere been accumulated

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53. The frequent and great changes in the mineralogical composition of consecutive formations, generally implying great changes in the geography of the surrounding lands, whence the sediment was derived, accord with the belief of vast intervals of time having elapsed between each formation

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54. A little reflection will explain why, along the rising coast of the western side of South America, no extensive formations with recent or tertiary remains can anywhere be found, though the supply of sediment must for ages have been great, from the enormous degradation of the coast rocks and from the muddy streams entering the sea

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55. We may, I think, conclude that sediment must be accumulated in extremely thick, solid, or extensive masses, in order to withstand the incessant action of the waves, when first upraised and during subsequent oscillations of level, as well as the subsequent subaerial degradation

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56. Such thick and extensive accumulations of sediment may be formed in two ways; either in profound depths of the sea, in which case the bottom will not be inhabited by so many and such varied forms of life as the more shallow seas; and the mass when upraised will give an imperfect record of the organisms which existed in the neighbourhood during the period of its accumulation

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57. Or sediment may be deposited to any thickness and extent over a shallow bottom, if it continue slowly to subside

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58. In this latter case, as long as the rate of subsidence and supply of sediment nearly balance each other, the sea will remain shallow and favourable for many and varied forms, and thus a rich fossiliferous formation, thick enough, when upraised, to resist a large amount of denudation, may be formed

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59. Consequently, formations rich in fossils and sufficiently thick and extensive to resist subsequent degradation, will have been formed over wide spaces during periods of subsidence, but only where the supply of sediment was sufficient to keep the sea shallow and to embed and preserve the remains before they had time to decay

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60. It is not, for instance, probable that sediment was deposited during the whole of the glacial period near the mouth of the Mississippi, within that limit of depth at which marine animals can best flourish: for we know that great geographical changes occurred in other parts of America during this space of time

61. But we have seen that a thick formation, fossiliferous throughout its entire thickness, can accumulate only during a period of subsidence; and to keep the depth approximately the same, which is necessary that the same marine species may live on the same space, the supply of sediment must nearly counterbalance the amount of subsidence

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62. But this same movement of subsidence will tend to submerge the area whence the sediment is derived, and thus diminish the supply, whilst the downward movement continues

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63. In fact, this nearly exact balancing between the supply of sediment and the amount of subsidence is probably a rare contingency; for it has been observed by more than one palaeontologist that very thick deposits are usually barren of organic remains, except near their upper or lower limits

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64. Wherever sediment did not accumulate on the bed of the sea, or where it did not accumulate at a sufficient rate to protect organic bodies from decay, no remains could be preserved

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65. It may be doubted whether the duration of any one great period of subsidence over the whole or part of the archipelago, together with a contemporaneous accumulation of sediment, would EXCEED the average duration of the same specific forms; and these contingencies are indispensable for the preservation of all the transitional gradations between any two or more species

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66. From the nature of the organic remains which do not appear to have inhabited profound depths, in the several formations of Europe and of the United States; and from the amount of sediment, miles in thickness, of which the formations are composed, we may infer that from first to last large islands or tracts of land, whence the sediment was derived, occurred in the neighbourhood of the now existing continents of Europe and North America

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67. But we do not know what was the state of things in the intervals between the several successive formations; whether Europe and the United States during these intervals existed as dry land, or as a submarine surface near land, on which sediment was not deposited, or as the bed of an open and unfathomable sea

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68. Hence, we may perhaps infer, that during the palaeozoic and secondary periods, neither continents nor continental islands existed where our oceans now extend; for had they existed, palaeozoic and secondary formations would in all probability have been accumulated from sediment derived from their wear and tear; and would have been at least partially upheaved by the oscillations of level, which must have intervened during these enormously long periods

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69. In members of the same class the average amount of change, during long and equal periods of time, may, perhaps, be nearly the same; but as the accumulation of enduring formations, rich in fossils, depends on great masses of sediment being deposited on subsiding areas, our formations have been almost necessarily accumulated at wide and irregularly intermittent intervals of time; consequently the amount of organic change exhibited by the fossils embedded in consecutive formations is not equal

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70. I have given my reasons for believing that most of our great formations, rich in fossils, were deposited during periods of subsidence; and that blank intervals of vast duration, as far as fossils are concerned, occurred during the periods when the bed of the sea was either stationary or rising, and likewise when sediment was not thrown down quickly enough to embed and preserve organic remains

71. Successive formations are in most cases separated from each other by blank intervals of time of great length, for fossiliferous formations thick enough to resist future degradation can, as a general rule, be accumulated only where much sediment is deposited on the subsiding bed of the sea

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72. They might go there a thousand times before the sediment of fishing would sink to the bottom and leave their purpose pure; but no doubt such a clarifying process would be going on all the while

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73. The nature of the mineral I immediately conjectured, and treated it with diluted sulphuric acid, in which it entirely dissolved with effervescence, forming a bitter fluid, and leaving no sediment

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74. Its analysis has never been attempted by chemists; but the earthy sediment which is the result of its accumulated deposition, proves that it is a compound of earthy particles in a peculiar state of aggregation, and in which alumine appears to preponderate, rather than calcareous or silicious earths or oxides

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