Sediment means: A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water. Related words include deposit or substance. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how to use Sediment in practice.
Sediment in a sentence
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Sediment meaning
A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.
Example types with sediment
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It will also restrict the release of sediment onto surrounding coral reefs. (12 words)
Cd, Ge and V are common accessory elements in sediment-hosted Zn-Pb-(Cu) deposits. (15 words)
It appeared that moisture and perhaps sediment seeped in to the box from a damaged seam. (16 words)
Grain size main seeAlso Sediment in the Gulf of Mexico Sediment off the Yucatán Peninsula Sediment size is measured on a log base 2 scale, called the "Phi" scale, which classifies particles by size from "colloid" to "boulder". (38 words)
Levees are common in any river with a high suspended sediment fraction, and thus are intimately associated with meandering channels, which also are more likely to occur where a river carries large fractions of suspended sediment. (36 words)
A channel in a tidal flat can see the deposition of a few metres of sediment in one day, while on the deep ocean floor each year only a few millimetres of sediment accumulate. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Grain size main seeAlso Sediment in the Gulf of Mexico Sediment off the Yucatán Peninsula Sediment size is measured on a log base 2 scale, called the "Phi" scale, which classifies particles by size from "colloid" to "boulder".
I studied the characteristics of the sediment, the chemistry in the sediment and also the microfossils in it.
While reducing sediment entering the reservoir in the first place is a start, at some point, sediment will have to be removed.
A channel in a tidal flat can see the deposition of a few metres of sediment in one day, while on the deep ocean floor each year only a few millimetres of sediment accumulate.
Levees are common in any river with a high suspended sediment fraction, and thus are intimately associated with meandering channels, which also are more likely to occur where a river carries large fractions of suspended sediment.
Some contaminated sediment is being removed from the site and hauled away, while other sediment is pumped into a series of settling ponds.
The null point theory explains how sediment deposition undergoes a hydrodynamic sorting process within the marine environment leading to a seaward fining of sediment grain size.
The type of sediment that is deposited is not only dependent on the sediment that is transported to a place, but also on the environment itself.
The type of sediment transported depends on the geology of the hinterland (the source area of the sediment).
The valley floor owes its flatness to sediment deposited by these stands (the last glaciers in the valley were small and did not remove much old lake sediment).
This means that coarser sediment particles can be transported and the deposited sediment can be coarser than in deeper environments.
Another component of Phase 1 includes the installation of a forebay, a hydraulic system for trapping sediment, at the north end of City Park Lake.
Before the arrival of the highly engineered levee system, the river naturally flooded the delta with land-building sediment.
Cd, Ge and V are common accessory elements in sediment-hosted Zn-Pb-(Cu) deposits.
Craig Nelson, outside his trailer at High Valley Park mobile home park in Alamosa County, Colorado, says the water has been undrinkable for years, due to arsenic and brown sediment.
Debris and sediment removal work are both continuing Friday and are expected to continue over the next few weekdays.
Homes throughout Barre, Vermont, were inundated with flash flooding on Monday, July 10, 2023, into the early morning on Tuesday, July 11, leaving behind thick mud and sediment.
In working with stones, for example, it offered a convenient parallel to what she describes as the “sediment” that had built up when it came to her family’s history.
It appeared that moisture and perhaps sediment seeped in to the box from a damaged seam.
It will also restrict the release of sediment onto surrounding coral reefs.
Common combinations with sediment
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the sediment 34×
- of sediment 34×
- and sediment 22×
- sediment and 20×
- sediment in 15×
- sediment that 11×
- sediment cores 6×
- sediment from 6×
- sediment is 5×
- sediment to 5×