Sentences with phrase «of sediment onto»

Almost half the area cleared was in river catchments near the Great Barrier Reef, increasing the flow of sediment onto offshore corals.

Each time the river flooded, it threw up a fresh layer of sediment onto the banks.

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The model accounts for accretion of sand onto beaches and long - term sediment processes in making projections of future shoreline position.

Large tsunamis could have carried sediment onto the land and obscured parts of the martian ocean's shoreline, according to a study published today in Scientific Reports.

«On Titan, we'd also need to think about tholin sediments settling out of the atmosphere onto the panels and having to wipe them off every so often,» Hendrix says.

The shale, named for the town of Eagle Ford, TX, is a geologic remnant of the ancient ocean that covered present day Texas millions of years ago, when the remains of sea life (especially ancient plankton) died and deposited onto the seafloor, were buried by several hundred feet of sediment, eventually turning into the rich source of hydrocarbons we have today.The shale was first tapped in 2008 and now has around 20 active fields good producing over 900 million cubic feet per day of natural gas.

Its head has an array of mop - like tentacles, which it splays onto the sediment.

Each new batch of sediment that settles onto the sea floor contains bacteria; as those bacteria were exposed to the oxygen in the water, they began storing a chemical called phosphate in their cells.

The most practical way to protect long stretches of shoreline between cities is to pump sand from offshore deposits onto beaches every five to 10 years to replace the sediments that tides, common storms and hurricanes wear away.

Instead, they concentrated on the energy delivered by the rising waves as they crashed onto the beaches, dunes, shingle beds and rocky coasts, and on the consequent erosion of sediment.