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"sediment" Definitions
  1. the solid material that settles at the bottom of a liquid
  2. (geology) sand, stones, mud, etc. carried by water or wind and left, for example, on the bottom of a lake, river, etc.Topics Geographyc1

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The brown Pacific water indicates sediment-rich areas; teal-ish Pacific water indicates the sediment mixing with the ocean's saltwater.
Watch it shovel sediment into its mouth-hole and then watch it digest that sediment through its see-through body.
But the Yellow River, with its fine sediment particles, had low dunes spaced far apart, freeing more energy to move the sediment.
Soft, wet sediment, Anandakrishnan says, can make a glacier slide extremely fast, and it is probable that a lot of such sediment lies under Thwaites.
Sediment flows in the marine environment quickly buried the fossils, and the composition of the sediment and the environment kept the soft-tissue creatures intact.
As the changing climate melts Greenland's ice sheet, the runoff is filling fjords with sediment — about 10 percent of all sediment delivered to oceans worldwide.
Large-scale sediment diversions will be used in strategic places along the Mississippi River, starting with the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion south of New Orleans.
In Champagne, and in some pét-nats, the sediment is disgorged, a process of maneuvering the sediment to the neck of the bottle and then ejecting it.
At the Xiaolangdi Dam, competing systems may simultaneously lower the riverbed as clear water flushes away sediment and raise it as sandy water forms dunes that slow the sediment flow.
According to International Rivers, an environmental NGO, the full cascade of dams planned for the Lancang would trap nearly all of the sediment coming from China, cutting the water's sediment load in half.
Note all the sediment stirred up in the shallow waters!
Sediment plumes at the London Array in the North Atlantic.
And there's no evidence of sediment, or anything like that.
They cited sediment mixing over time as a likely cause.
The dams are certainly stripping the Mekong of essential sediment.
Boats sometimes get grounded because the sediment is so thick.
I thought of it as sediment, as putting down layers.
Flinders University archaeologist Mike Morley sampling sediment in Denisova Cave.
The region's fertile soil depends on nutrient-rich sediment that the Mekong carries downriver, mainly during the rainy season from June to October; more than half the sediment in central Cambodia comes from China.
During what is called the Water and Sediment Regulation Discharge Project at Xiaolangdi Dam, muddy water evacuates sediment from the reservoir, and clear water washes sand out from the channel below to reduce flood risk.
And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs.
We don't know how much sediment they are going to move.
Lower in the sediment core, fossils abounded from 60 plankton species.
The nuclear weapon tests caused a dramatic change in sediment composition.
Silt and sediment has settled at the bottom of two bottles.
Specks of black dust and sediment cling to the uneven surface.
And the dolomite cemented the sediment particles in place, forming concretions.
He spotted something white sticking halfway out from the sediment surface.
Dr. Kjær ventured to the floodplain via helicopter and collected sediment.
Dr. Vannier's team analyzed the sediment that preserves the Moroccan fossils.
But a river bottom thick with sediment is just a graveyard.
Today, six ships comb the ocean, sucking sediment from the seabed.
Sediment, salinity and other organisms can also affect a lake's pinkness.
Restricting sewage and sediment runoff from shores that choke the coral.
"Sediment flows are critical to a river's eco-system and if you change the flow of sediment, you get a different river," said Marc Goichot, a water specialist at the World Wildlife Fund's Greater Mekong Program.
"As the ROV was traversing a flat area of rock interspersed with sediment at 4,290 meters, it came across a remarkable little octopod sitting on a flat rock dusted with a light coat of sediment," NOAA wrote.
Ceramic filters are designed to block sediment, ultraviolet filters target bacteria, etc.
And they also saw rivers filled with sediment that once flowed clear.
Overall, the foundation said states are reducing enough phosphorous and sediment pollution.
That's far more than the 11 percent detected in the surrounding sediment.
Another concern, in the wake of the Peru Basin experiment, is sediment.
The cobbles are far larger than any other stones in the sediment.
THE mucky sediment below fish farms usually teems with antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
The trees help curb saltwater from seeping inward and turn into sediment.
The San Jose, which sunk 300 years ago, was partially sediment-covered.
These worms also live and burrow in sediment, like other sea-worms.
One effect of these clean energy behemoths, however, seems indisputable: sediment plumes.
Sediment washed from farmland can also choke the life out of streams.
The gravel was meant to represent sediment carried by a flowing river.
If you're lucky, your resin-covered lizard will be submerged below sediment.
Hydraulic mining uses high-pressure water jets to dislodge rocks and sediment.
The following day, DePalma noticed a small disturbance preserved in the sediment.
In the lab, DePalma showed me magnified cross-sections of the sediment.
Glacial melting also flushes previously trapped water and sediment into the ocean.
Fisher aptly called these changeable mood states,  rollicking Roy and sediment Pam.
The sediment in which they grow is loaded with deadly hydrogen sulfide.
Dams reduce the amount of sediment flowing downstream, which lowers soil fertility.
This microorganism, called Stylonychia, is often found in fresh water and sediment.
It involves analyzing data like layers of sediment taken from the seabed.
The filter is very fine and keeps out a great deal of sediment.
For its water and fertile sediment, no river is more important to humanity.
A build-up of sediment changed the river's course 26 times before 1949.
Is the ridge made of wet sediment, or is it firm and dry?
When vibrations or water disturb the sediment, it can liquefy and flow away.
The cameras will also help scientists observe details in Martian rock and sediment.
The analysis could find buried layers of sediment, rock, ice, water, or saltwater.
But with the end of river flooding came an end to fresh sediment.
Sediment from construction clouds waters, burying corals and blocking the light they need.
Sediment redistribution has also naturally raised the height of some islands, he said.
Pearce said that over time, successive floods would normally flush out the sediment.
Pros: Affordable, less sweet than proseccoCons: Creamier, more sediment (due to bottle aging)
The site contains contaminated soil, sediment and groundwater from past industrial operations there.
Many are now flooded, with the risk that waters were stirring dangerous sediment.
Tons of sediment slid into the Yaak River, which flows into the Kootenai.
There are almost enough new-growth trees to keep the sediment load down.
This one was captured cruising around the sediment at over 9,000 feet down.
The loser, pictured here, attempts to bury beneath the sediment after its defeat.
The vastness of the plain—Louisiana's coastline alone is 400 miles long—reflects the Mississippi's huge reach and sediment load; the river, which drains 275% of the contiguous United States, is estimated to transport around 2000m tonnes of sediment a year.
River dams are also a problem: on the Missouri, which empties into the Mississippi, just six dams retain roughly a hundred million tons of sediment—a quarter of the entire sediment load that the Mississippi once carried to the Gulf.
In the future, to get accurate results, the water trapped near the sediment and the sediment itself in the Cape Fear River will need to be tested to see whether these heavy metals and other contaminants have accumulated, Vengosh said.
In a flood, water churns up chunks of sediment and spreads into the oxbow.
But as Curiosity keeps going up Mount Sharp, it is collecting more sediment samples.
Researchers found them in sediment cores collected from White Pond in Elgin, South Carolina.
Those isotopes found on Earth can be dated from the sediment they are in.
"These are animals living in the sediment that you don't normally see," he said.
When in the water, don't stir up sediment from the bottom in shallow areas.
It gets its colour, and name, from the loess-soil sediment it carries downstream.
Archaeologists suspect that much of the ship's cargo still remains buried under the sediment.
Corals are delicate animals, and are succumbing to pollution and sediment from coastal construction.
The Castle Bravo explosion also produced radioactive material that settled into the ocean sediment.
The lower is a large deposit of sediment from the hours following the impact.
When it hit, "all of that sediment was dispersed and taken away," Wright says.
All this methane was stored as hydrate within the sediment, creating over-pressurized conditions.
Another unusual feature of the reef is its location within murky, sediment-rich water.
A healthier forest will result in less sediment and debris running into the reservoirs.
Teams are still learning how to dig through the digital sediment for usable knowledge.
But the island, which only emerged around 2006, is flat and formed from sediment.
These tiny microbes can eke out a living in deep ocean sediment and rock.
The sediment of dust that redefine temporary assemblages of organic stuffs: ecotones, ecozones, ecoflows.
But you might want to keep the bottle standing up so the sediment settles.
One square inch of sediment may contain as much as eight miles of cables.
In 2015, sediment had yet to cover the flows, and hydrothermal vents were present.
The next rains might dump more sediment in the stream rather than cleaning it.
Drill beneath the sediment on the sea floor and you hit the oceanic crust.
Dates were provided for 103 sediment deposits spanning 280,000 years of history in the cave.
They can still be found in their tiny ecosystem within beach sand or sea sediment.
Levees stopped the natural flow of fresh water and sediment that reinforced the fragile marshes.
They decayed on the surface and became buried by the asphalt and sediment over time.
J. tests my weights and swimming technique to make sure I don't kick up sediment.
Because monkeys typically live in lush forests where sediment is rarely deposited, they rarely fossilise.
Sediment plumes and a boat wake at the Thanet wind farm in the North Atlantic.
But sediment-hosted deposits, the team found, did indeed tend to be near craton boundaries.
It can produce clear, smooth coffee with minimal sediment, but it was always too watery.
The team extracted soil samples from Pilauco, rehydrating the sediment with various amounts of water.
Eventually, these shells get covered in sediment, preserving their contents for protracted periods of time.
Despite this, seeing through a few metres of it is not too hard, sediment permitting.
Some individuals had fallen into a lagoon, allowing their bones to be preserved in sediment.
The mixture of mercury and sediment is then heated up, helping to separate the gold.
Sediment from farmland and developments fills in gaps between cobblestones, displacing larvae from their homes.
This near-shore sediment load represents a looming risk, much like snowpack in avalanche country.
They found that the sediment collected from the skull site contained fossilized deep sea diatoms.
In waterlogged soil, the microscopic spaces around the grains of sediment are filled with water.
One of their cores came from sediment coincidentally close to the wreckage of the Titanic.
From the rivers the sediment flows into lakes and the sea, altering those environments too.
McCall prefers the less-sought-after marine invertebrates preserved in the sediment of ancient seabeds.
Horizontal was expected; that would be natural movement as they pushed through the sediment layer.
The general rule, Adi said, is that the more roots, the more sediment trapped below.
The site contains contaminated groundwater, soil, sediment and surface water resulting from the installation's operations.
At first, we considered buying containers and filling them with water and sediment samples ourselves.
The coffee is the Turkish kind with a heavy band of sediment at the bottom.
This lobster is completely blind, spending most of its life in burrows in the sediment.
Ben Grumbles, secretary of Maryland's Department of the Environment, said that at least two million tons of sediment that had been trapped behind the dam entered the bay within days; that's more than a year's worth of sediment from the Susquehanna River under normal conditions.
The sediment plumes are a striking illustration of how California is losing control of its water.
Here, you can see all the sediment churned up in the Gulf waters by the storm.
Climate shifts were seen in the sediment in the form of alternating wet and dry periods.
Gale Crater was created by an ancient impact, then filled in with sediment layers over time.
This will also add to sediment in rivers and reservoirs, affecting storage capacity and water quality.
In White Pond, the researchers took samples from the sediment beneath the pond and dated them.
The state, in the filing, noted sediment deposits and improper erosion controls, along with other violations.
Sediment plumes and a boat wake at the Greater Gabbard wind farm in the North Atlantic.
They are places where all the sediment and silt swirled up by the ocean's activity settle.
Snowmelt and heavy rains can dredge up that sediment and send it coursing downstream once again.
He said 22015% of Ghana's waterways were polluted by miners stirring up sediment and dumping waste.
Radiocarbon dating revealed that the sediment was about 41,403 years old, give or take 1,400 years.
The undersea probe also took samples of seawater, sediment, and tiny organisms attached to the wreck.
The asteroid displaced 48,000 cubic miles of sediment, enough material to fill nearly 17 Lake Superiors.
Danger of sediment The biodiversity of Lake Tanganyika can be imagined like a thin bathtub ring.
Sediment carried downstream can help repair coastal erosion, but not if dams trap it in reservoirs.
In the lab, long tubes of sediment taken from the ocean floor lay displayed on tables.
That sediment, a mix of coal ash and soil, ended up in the nearby Waccamaw River.
More potential sources Water and sediment at the irrigation reservoir on the property of Adam Bros.
DePalma probed the sediment around it, to gauge its position and how best to extract it.
A tow truck then removed the vehicle, which was encased in a large amount of sediment.
A second later, my head hits the ceiling and a spill of sediment dusts my face.
But the work to recover the lake sediment cores, and the insects within them, wasn't easy.
Nearby deforestation and gold mining shifted sediment in the region, making the ground less stable underfoot.
Mangroves suck carbon dioxide out of the air and bury it in the sediment below them.
Over the past few hundred thousand years, sediment has slowly built up on the cave floor.
High levels of sediment that clouds the water have also damaged the bay's ecosystem over time.
"The C.C.Z. is a soft sediment habitat so the hard surfaces are limited," Dr. Beaulieu said.
Once the impurities settle, slowly pour the liquid into another container, without disturbing the sediment. 63.
They feed on mud flats by sifting the sediment through their mouth parts and eating microorganisms.
Some of the bone fractures could have been caused by pressure from overlying sediment, he suggested.
Mr. Hill likened these layers upon layers of sediment to the growth rings of a tree.
It's an adaptation to the murky, sediment-choked water of the muddy rivers paddlefish thrive in.
The sediment record on the ocean floor indicates that a second megaflood occurred 160,000 years ago.
An essential component of Louisiana's integrated strategy is a series of controlled structures called sediment diversions.
They grow as filaments, feeding on iron compounds and creating tube-shaped cavities in the sediment.
In September, yet another study found microplastics in sediment samples off Southern California dating back decades.
The key to unlocking all of these figures is a mineral in the lake sediment called gypsum.
He's a second-generation sediment remover who earns about $2.5 million dollars a year in Washington State.
It's only about roughly 330 feet of sediment layers in one corner of Gale Crater, says Bennett.
Mount Sharp, the mountain at its center, was created by wind erosion of the hardened sediment layers.
So, essentially, the hierarchies of information that Google's algorithms create can and do surface or sediment information.
Beneath the centuries of sediment is the aquifer and all of this debris is collected there somewhere.
The whole area appears to have been buried more or less intact by sediment from a stream.
But it has starved the delta region of the sediment deposits to which it owes its existence.
Most fossils form when sediment in water slowly rains down upon the body of a dead animal.
The remainder was excreted as waste, which drops down and is ultimately buried in the river sediment.
That sediment would cloud the water, blocking out the sunlight corals and seagrasses depend on to survive.
And sediment plumes will extend the damage over many thousands of square kilometres beyond the mining area.
According to Dr Richards, that shrinks the space worth searching for sediment-hosted deposits by two-thirds.
Mitchell explained that this has been observed elsewhere, when the magma is denser than the surrounding sediment.
Dating of the marine sediment within which the fossil was found places Peregocetus to the middle Eocene.
The Ravine near 218th Street, with its rushing waterfall, has pools clogged with sediment and needs dredging.
The icebergs carried sediment from around Canada's Hudson Bay and deposited the dirt on the ocean floor.
The site had once been a pond, and the deposit consisted of very thin layers of sediment.
The new sediment would have formed a fresh layer of soil and, in this way, countered subsidence.
" The Mississippi could then be allowed to flood again, "to fill in the 'bowl' with fresh sediment.
You have lots of lights on your head but there's a lot of mud and suspended sediment.
It forms a part of America's political sediment, a foundation upon which our contemporary politics are built.
When geologists are defining epochs, they look for factors that affect the composition of rocks and sediment.
Neither the state nor Army Corps of Engineers have attempted to suck sediment from the river before.
Beneath it, buried in layers of sediment, lies all the water that never flowed to the ocean.
Venice's typically murky waterways have turned clear since the sediment remains on the ground without boat traffic.
Sea cucumbers, for example, play a vital role in filtering sediment, but they are threatened by overfishing.
Louisiana has the mighty muddy Mississippi and nearly 100 million tons of sediment at our disposal annually.
Like prehistoric sediment, the walls of a building often contain traces and impressions of lives once lived.
The bolt had been securing the submarine's $350,000 robotic arm, designed to collect rock and sediment samples.
The islands are designed to collect sediment and attract birds, fish and other wildlife to the lake.
Her rich natural glazes are made with rock sediment gathered from the fields of her family's croft.
Because of this, French press coffee requires coarser grounds that release the goods without as much sediment.
As trees burn, ash is produced and makes its way into bodies of water, along with sediment.
" She predicted the plan "would smother vital wild salmon streams with sediment and irreparably harm subsistence hunters.
Among that sediment was cyanobacteria, microorganisms capable of photosynthesis and an important player in the nitrogen cycle.
The project began in 2006, when researchers hauled up sediment from the floor of the Pacific Ocean.
Dissolved oxygen has risen as industrial effluent has fallen, while phosphorus, bacteria and sediment have all declined.
Mr. Williamson, a no-nonsense political independent, has become a connoisseur of sediment flows and native fauna.
The levees altered the natural flow of river sediment, and Louisiana's southeastern wetlands gradually began to sink.
While white vinegar will remain almost unchanged indefinitely, other vinegars may change colour or produce a sediment.
The E.P.A. removed 40,000 cubic yards of the most highly contaminated sediment in the river near the Diamond Alkali plant in 2012, officials said, and in 2013 and 2014, the agency oversaw the removal of another 16,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment from a mud flat near Lyndhurst.
When the flood waters recede, the layer of coarse sediment sinks to the oxbow's bottom, where it remains.
Its urine sediment analyses method can simply take 5 drops of urine and provide results in 5 minutes.
In 2014, Ms. Wallace's colleagues collected sediment cores from the bottom of blue holes on South Andros Island.
She also wants to make sure that I can swim in a way that won't kick up sediment.
Coastal construction can lead to the dumping of sediment in the ocean, clouding waters and blocking needed light.
Jacunski marks the transformed plants with large swatches of original sediment, reintroducing the toxins that contaminated their roots.
They basically act like the ocean's garbage disposal, churning up the sediment and cycling nutrients in the meantime.
Most disappointingly, they found the same animals described by the 2010 study in the sediment around the pools.
That's in line with the Chinese collaboration's estimates based on their mapping and analysis of sediment the site.
In reality, these are vast wakes and plumes of suspended sediment generated by three enormous offshore wind farms.
White privilege isn't something that can be simply tossed aside — like sediment, it has collected on America's surface.
Image: Robert ReiszOrganic matter decomposes and sediment takes its place during the fossilization process, turning bones to rock.
Shot from an aircraft, this photo shows lagoons tinted by algae, and sediment in the sands of Brazil.
When the bacteria eventually die, those chains remain behind in the sediment, and 60Fe would be locked inside.
They use mercury and nitric acid, which also cause breathing problems, to leach precious ore out of sediment.
You know, the typical stuff: sediment studies, a plant thermometer, a replacement hand for the giant robotic Canadarm.
The sediment had been stirred by a high-pressure water hose that Hozoji used to dislodge the geoduck.
The product, called Vessi, ferments and dispenses suds and even has a system for reducing and managing sediment.
But over the last century, people built levees in the Mississippi, which prevents the river from spreading sediment.
They were able to use surrounding sediment to date the remains to between 73,000 and 63,000 years old.
The nitrogen is taken by the plants in the water, while the phosphorus gets trapped in the sediment.
Van Patten said the car was submerged in four to six feet of water and encased in sediment.
Reducing water in the rainy season produces smaller floodplains with less sediment deposited in them, impoverishing the soil.
"Reducing sediment load into rivers has cut the cost of treating water by about three percent," he added.
Its hope was that removing polluted sediment upriver would halt PCBs from flowing south toward New York City.
So far they've been accelerating algae blooms, stirring up sediment, and consuming the eggs of native fish species.
The rivers are rich in sediment to begin with, but heavy rains make them all the more distinct.
The lake water was so shallow and full of sediment that drinking it gave him a stomach ache.
They are thought to be stromatolites, layers of sediment packed together by microbial communities living in shallow water.
And if any sediment is left in the sink, the chopped lettuce is washed in the solution again.
One possibility is that extraction could destabilize the sea floor and send sediment tumbling down the continental slope.
She was encased in sediment that was millions of years old, and researchers had to be extremely careful.
The bootleg wine was warm, and, when I raised my cup, I could see thick sediment dancing inside.
"Most died in a vertical position in the sediment, didn't even tip over on their sides," he said.
"We will attempt to dredge every ounce of sediment out of the river that we can," he promised.
The first artificial crevasse scheduled to be built is a project known as the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion.
The San José was partly sediment covered, forcing the REMUS to get within 30 feet of the ship.
Collecting these lake sediment cores is similar to the ice cores collected in Antarctica to study climate change.
For 60,000 years, an underwater cypress forest was preserved within an oxygen-less tomb of sand and sediment.
Curiosity's examination of the rocks at the surface suggest that sediment grains are tightly cemented together, not porous.
Most of her skeleton was found embedded in sediment of South Africa's Sterkfonetin Cave, including a complete skull.
There, salt marshes have been established using sediment from both the Eems-Dollard estuary and port of Delfzijl.
In 2006 a "mud volcano" erupted in East Java, Indonesia, engulfing more than 10 villages in slimy sediment.
But eventually, as the sediment slips through the cracks like sand through an hourglass, the ground gives way.
They were unspooling Earth's history, raising up sections of sediment and ancient rock from beneath the South Pacific.
As Curiosity roved the dusty basin of Gale Crater, the instrument sensed that the sediment underneath is porous.
Every day, for thousands of years, the tides would come in and deposit sediment before rolling back out.
The two California dinosaurs probably died near the shore, floated out to sea and sank into the sediment.
Other groups of researchers have found DNA in sediment, including Dr. Poinar and Michael Hofreiter, his former student.
So I just kept the bottle next to me and slopped it into my glass, sediment and all.
Those images of monumental debris—angular masses that appear to emerge from sediment like alien geology—remain transfixing.
Here's the full image:Image: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSISDunes on Mars form when winds move sediment, just like on Earth.
Green's process is geological, the incremental layering of gooey, pigmented sediment, each deposit delivered by a particular method.
These giant 300-ton robot tractors trundle along the seafloor, ploughing through the sediment, scooping up manganese rocks.
Fossils are being found throughout the sediment that fills the pit, but the assemblage occupies a single concentrated layer.
Few American cities have the accrued historical sediment of New York, but few are as unsentimental about the past.
If you do a coarse, or even medium, grind there is almost zero sediment remaining when brewing is completed.
The location itself, at a bend in the river, serves as a natural confluence, where materials and sediment accumulate.
Instead, start by decanting it off the sediment, or solid matter, that typically tends to form on red wines.
When Brian is not digging up the waterways to remove sediment, he's usually digging in creeks, looking for gold.
A bundle of pipes and wells sank to the ocean floor and became partially buried under mud and sediment.
In this case, they used a technique known as paleomagnetic dating, which analyzes sediment and loess (wind-blown sand).
The Catalyst, however, is designed primarily for beer so the trub is much larger and can hold more sediment.
Since the fossil was firmly cemented in the sediment, researchers removed it from the site in a solid block.
The electric wine aerator is designed to leave sediment in the bottom of the bottle, instead of your glass.
Dr Toomey's findings stem from his analysis of sediment cores collected near the Dry Tortugas, islands off Florida's coast.
Because they are unable to be filtered and settle into ocean sediment, the beads have become an environmental hazard.
Experts say decades of mass deforestation have led to soil erosion where sediment is washed downstream from mountainous areas.
That left Laos, Cambodia and Thailand as the main source of sediment for the Mekong in Vietnam, he said.
"If you don't see the evidence for animals living in the sediment, you assume they weren't there," he added.
The researchers looked for the telltale signs of a fault — areas where lines of sediment suddenly jump, or bend.
The mesh basket filter is fine enough that you won't get the heavy sediment that taints some cold brewers.
As time went on they became buried in the sediment, which forever fossilized their game of "follow-the-leader."
Scientists also want to know how rising sea temperatures, water acidity, pollution, sediment and overfishing affect reefs over time.
And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs … Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out.
Sediment plumes and disturbance caused by mining could wipe out habitats for slow-growing corals and fish, Mahapatra said.
When reservoirs have high levels of sediment, they have to be dredged, interrupting power production and incurring a cost.
Conditions were really quite bad, the water flow was very strong and the suspended sediment made visibility very low.
The study looked at sediment historically carried along by the AMOC -- the larger the grains, the stronger the current.
They also tested the surrounding sediment, animal fossils and artifacts at independent laboratories and found the ages roughly matched.
The Queensland Government has said it will enforce measures to protect water quality and prevent sediment and sewage runoff.
"Finding that Chlamydia have marine sediment relatives has given us new insights into how chlamydial pathogens evolved," Dharamshi said.
Now they are dredging the basin to scoop up 10 feet of black sediment heavily laced with coal tar.
We are working to use the river to put sediment back into the starving wetlands that desperately need it.
Over 18 months, Encore pulled nearly a million tons of contaminated sediment from the area and the Mystic River.
A slow and even downward pressure also means you'll end up with a lot less sediment in your coffee.
Apart from heat stress, they respond also to other stressors such as sediment run-off, nutrient enrichment, and overfishing.
The group, accompanied by Times reporters, took water and sediment samples last week by boat, truck and on foot.
Rain and sediment washed carcasses from shorelines into moving water, which buried them and effectively preserved them for eternity.
Compared with the Mississippi River, it holds three times as much sediment and just a tenth of the water.
Lucinid clams live 5 to 25 centimeters below the sediment, in a dense mat of tough sea grass roots.
Cameroon's existing port of Douala was overworked, run down and restricted by its location on a sediment-filled estuary.
In both art and life, the past exists in the present like sediment, like a faint or erased line.
Sediment washed down from the Appalachian Mountains and carried by shore currents piled into dry land 4,500 years ago.
Where I stood, near a truck selling fresh meat pies, had been swimming in sediment just 13 weeks earlier.
According to photographer Fabien Michenet, snaketooths begin their lives near the surface, then spend adulthood in deep-sea sediment
Cycles of freezing and thawing, animal burrowing or even the shifting of sediment can displace bones and stone tools.
Tip: Leave the fins in your rental car because they will just stir up sediment and cloud the water.
Along with sediment, floodwaters also might pick up sewage and chemicals, along with livestock waste from breached hog lagoons.
There, the Brahmaputra River dramatically widens and deposits tons of sediment that create islands of sand in the river.
Avoid digging in, or stirring up, the sediment while taking part in water-related activities in shallow, warm freshwater areas.
In 2008, Hurricane Ike barreled through the region, burying the oysters under deep sediment and suffocating much of the population.
In some spots, the sediment is piled higher than it was the last time they measured, before Irma blew in.
Bayer's own tests have found that the pesticide is toxic in high doses to invertebrates in river and pond sediment.
Other samples from the nearby Catawba River were negative, although the amoeba was found in one sample of riverbank sediment.
That's about 2625 times the volume of sediment contained in Australia's famed Uluru sandstone monolith, also known as Ayers Rock.
The Woods Hole scientists collected these samples, along with samples of sediment from around the pools, by remote-operated vehicle.
In the ancient swamps of southeast England, a palm-sized clump lay pickling in river sediment for 133 million years.
But the sediment also raises the river above the surrounding plains, so that it has to be contained by dykes.
His team is currently probing Southern Ocean sediment cores to see if there's any evidence for past iron fertilization episodes.
The scalloping must have come from lots of crushed shells, glued together by whatever sediment fell on top of them.
Nutman said the watery environment is shown by rock patterns consistent with wave action on sediment from the sea floor.
Just below the surface, rocks and sediment provide shelter from the extreme conditions above, providing a potential habitat for life.
In many wrecks around Florida, for instance, seagrass functions as an anchor, holding sediment in place and blanketing fragile timbers.
He also noted that test results of water from affected wells found it remained safe to drink, despite the sediment.
And a bunch of the mess—owned by Taylor Energy—is still down there, covered by tons of silty sediment.
In Divorce, marriage is a long accretion, the gathering of sediment year after year until digging out becomes too hard.
Sea cukes eat a ton, because sediment is pretty scarce in nutrients—the fast food addict of the sea floor.
The structures consist of conical waves of sediment deposited by ancient microbes for protection and shelter in shallow water environments.
In 2015, GE completed six years of dredging to remove PCB-contaminated sediment from upriver locations near its former factories.
"It's illegal to place any cover over the bay, whether that be sediment or dredge or floating structures," Marcus said.
The sediment was jet black and stood out against the foam riverbed and surrounding terrain, which were painted bright white.
After a few years, enough sediment would be deposited in Barataria Bay that terra semi-firma would start to form.
In the early part of the twentieth century, it lost its main sources of fresh sediment to flood-control measures.
This would cause an abrupt pressure shift and, as with everything else, could destabilize the sediment and cause a landslide.
Sediment levels in the Mississippi River are dropping, which could be bad for the Louisiana coast, the Times-Picayune reports.
The mercury settled into the sediment at the bottom of the river, contaminating the system at least 250 kilometers downstream.
The next day, the liquid appears to have separated, a thick yellow sediment settling at the bottom of the bottle.
To double check, they performed tests on the sand grains found embedded in the skull and sediment from the pit.
The city of Venice in Italy has been sinking into its soft sediment by an inch a year for generations.
Despite the way it's been mythologized, the shore that the Pilgrims found was a flat beach of sand and sediment.
First, there was the dredging, in which ships sucked sediment from the seabed and pumped it atop formerly undeveloped reefs.
Its very sediment is strafed with 19903,500 years of architectural history: Etruscan caves, ancient remains, medieval dwellings and Renaissance villas.
They spotted microscopic organisms from the ocean in the sediment, similar to those found in soil after the 1998 tsunami.
Without sediment, the banks of rivers and canals will erode, sending homes, crops and infrastructure into the water, experts say.
Now, that water is making its way through inland waterways and carrying sediment and debris slowly out into the Atlantic.
In the middle distance is where the fort once stood, its remains lost beneath a cluster of sediment and trees.
But, in the search for these precious gems, thousands of tons of sediment is dredged up and then dumped overboard.
They typically are built when the sediment dragged along by glaciers falls off and accumulates in a stretched-out pile.
This spring, seeing Nick Sivo go through the batch with a new company stirred up the sediment of Altman's youth.
Typically, paleontologists come across evidence of feathers in the fossil record by discovering feather impressions caked into rock and sediment.
It just gives the land a top layer of bone-dry dust, which the flooding sweeps away, creating those sediment rivers.
Within the sediment, the researches found traces of pollen and some animal fossils, which were used to radiocarbon date the layers.
Pure salt is usually left behind when a lake dries and disappears, but these are mineral salts mixed in with sediment.
The trub is designed to catch all of the sediment in the beer including the spent yeast and water-logged hops.
Temperatures have risen by about 1 degree Celsius, 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, and mining has pinched the flow of tributaries, increasing sediment.
Microbeads — often labelled as polyethylene — settle into ocean sediment and can be ingested by marine life, resulting in severe health impacts.
As part of the study, the researchers took sediment samples from a knoll at a depth of 3,840 feet (1,170 meters).
It cannot come by ship: The Columbia River channel has collapsed, filled with underwater slides of sediment disturbed by the earthquake.
The storm, in addition to stripping away vegetation, caused a tremendous amount of sediment to pour out of rivers and streams.
Twentieth-century development has lowered the water table in the marshes near Azraq, giving scientists better access to deeper sediment layers.
Among the experts who did offer an analysis, most said the samples showed pretty normal stuff, like sludge, sediment, and dust.
A copious amount of light brown sediment can be seen wafting in the waters along the island's western and southern coasts.
Radiocarbon dating, carbon-isotope analysis, and sediment analysis were used to date the site, along with ceramics found at Grand Caillou.
Those areas did not take a direct hit from Matthew but still took in damaging levels of sediment after the storm.
As the sediment settles, it raises the river bed and makes the river more prone to flooding with the summer rains.
The result is a sediment which is then combined with elderflower to make an emulsion that is brushed onto the pastry.
This shows that marinobacter are able to survive even when transplanted into a hyper-salty sediment pocket below the icy tundra.
Rather, they concluded that the majority of the reef, stretching beyond 3,000 feet, showed conclusive damage to corals by dredging sediment.
He works on a large mining boat with a powerful tube which sucks sediment from the bottom of the Madeira River.
Second, dams trap sediment and nutrients, keeping them from traveling downriver to fertile deltas that are home to 500 million people.
The Filtron Cold Water Coffee Concentrate Brewer produces remarkably rich, sediment-free cold brew, thanks to its multi-chamber filter system.
Those dams reduce nutrient-rich sediment that move downriver, allowing farmers to grow crops and affecting fish catches, critics have said.
Whenever it overtopped its banks—something it used to do virtually every spring—the river cast its sediment across the plain.
On occasion, it cuts a new channel, sending water and sediment flowing in new directions and, in the process, creating land.
Downstream, by the mouth of a larger hose, another man stood in the water, separating rocks from the flow of sediment.
The stream had accumulated sediment, and many of the small spaces between boulders where the crayfish live had been filled in.
Goldfish swim along the bottom of lakes and rivers, uprooting vegetation, disturbing sediment and releasing nutrients that trigger excess algal growth.
After the surface water is skimmed, it's relatively free of sediment and chemicals, and is pumped from one pond to another.
The team dated the tooth dentin and enamel, the sediment stuck to the upper jaw, and tools found near the fossil.
That is because buildings physically prevent the sediment that helps form strong beaches from reaching the shore, making them less resilient.
In the samples of sediment they studied, the researchers found mostly fibers, 20 percent of which they confirmed to be plastic.
To rebuild land, "We only have one effective tool, which is the Mississippi and the sediment it carries downstream," he said.
In the lab, the researchers mimicked the conditions in the seafloor by putting the sediment in a chamber without any oxygen.
She and a team of scientists drilled into the seafloor below the North Atlantic and retrieved cores containing ancient ocean sediment.
They lay on their sides to keep the corks moist, and you could not right them lest you disturb the sediment.
Decanting was always done by candlelight, because only when the decanter was lit from below could the sediment be seen properly.
Musicians played electric ouds while several dozen guests sipped chilled hibiscus tea with sugar sediment at the bottom of the cups.
Once on St. John, a boat captain helped me explore the moldering resort's sediment-strewn sands and roof-blown cabins undisturbed.
The dam's hydropower release valves also have been shut down to prevent damage from sediment and debris carried by heavy rain.
The swirls of sediment made wavy marbled ribbons in the wall, and the clicking of our crampons echoed through the tunnels.
The eel hunts by resting in the sediment — it's large eyes help it spot prey swimming above it in the dark.
Because carp have no teeth, the fish suck up fish eggs, insects, mussels, and plant matter from the riverbed, stirring up sediment.
The technique was used to study sediment from seven caves in Europe and Russia, dating between about 14,000 and 550,000 years ago.
As I wrote last summer, once those levees go, fresh sediment and water will flood into surrounding wetlands, beginning the restoration process.
The temblor's long, violent shaking likely triggered one or more underwater landslides due to unstable sediment deposited on the seafloor by rivers.
It's what Earth scientists call a "passive margin," meaning the main thing happening is that sediment is slowly eroding into the sea.
This particular settlement was buried under 13 feet of sediment during the late Pleistocene, a condition that also left the site submerged.
The researchers thought this might have something to do with the distribution of sediment-hosted deposits, a particular type of ore body.
The fossils represent groups from the sea bottom, in the sea sediment itself, and ones that float and swim around like jellyfish.

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