Sentences with phrase «of the sediment carried»

The mangrove - mimicking dams trap some of the sediment carried by the tide, accumulating on the landward side.

They also suggest that the amount of sediment carried to the mouth of the Amazon each year and then dumped offshore should increase over time — something actually seen in sediment cores drilled from that area.

Flooding not only raises river levels, but also increases the amount of sediment they carry.

But the IPCC's prediction did not take into account the one billion tonnes of sediment carried by Himalayan rivers into Bangladesh every year, the study funded by the Asian Development Bank said.

Quote from article, «IPCC's prediction did not take into account the one billion tonnes of sediment carried by Himalayan rivers into Bangladesh every year.»

Not exact matches

Carried within the water column, accumulating on the ocean bottom or becoming entrained in marine sediments — a spill of Alberta bitumen might prove impossible to contain.

Now we know that the diverted river dumped about 30 per cent of the sediment it was carrying — 5 million cubic metres of sand — and it became new land, says Jeffrey Nittrouer at the University of Illinois in Urbana - Champaign (Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038 / ngeo1525).

Since sediment carried by Bayou Lafourche 1,200 to 600 years ago only contained about 20 percent sand, but an abundance of mud, the researchers suggest that land building can be maximized by gearing muddy diversions toward vegetated areas rather than to capture sandy deposits along the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

From the geochemical analyses carried out on the sediments deposited during the past 10,000 years in the Laguna de Rio Seco lagoon, a remote alpine lake in Sierra Nevada, at 3,020 m. above sea level, evidence has been found of atmospheric pollution from lead.

And, unfortunately, the microbes» speed is limited not by the availability of oil — or even its droplet size, which is why chemical dispersants have been used to break up the oil into microbe - friendly globules — but by the availability of various nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus that wash into the ocean via rivers carrying sediments from the continents.

Over 160,000 cubic feet per second of runoff, carrying sediment eroded from Piedmont riverbanks and farm fields upstream, submerged the falls.

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.

Hydrate Ridge is a pile of sediments that has been scraped off and piled up as the tectonic plate carrying the northwest Pacific Ocean slides under North America.

This «purification» function is carried out by the microorganisms present in their water column and sediments and, with it, they improve the general quality of the water and reduce the nitrogen load by promoting denitrification.»

The formula is the first physics - based sediment transport model capable of accurately describing how the Yellow River carries sediment, Nittrouer and Ma say.

Widespread erosion in the river's upper regions caused it to carry incredibly heavy loads of sediment downstream where deposits gradually raised the river bed above levees and surrounding fields.

As they hoped, the river carried away the sediment and deposited most of it in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the body of water that connects Puget Sound to the Pacific Ocean.

It lost the power to carry those countless tons of sediment, which drifted to the bottom.

As wind and rain erode the mountain range, massive rivers carry more than a billion tons of sediment into the Bay of Bengal each year; in some places, the layer deposited since the most recent ice age is more than one kilometer thick.

Carbonic acid dissociated to form hydrogen ions, which found their way into the structures of weathering minerals, and bicarbonate, which was carried down rivers and streams to be deposited as limestone and other minerals in ocean sediments.

Sediment that is light enough to be carried by water without touching the stream bed is called suspended sediment, and is visible as cloudy or milky areas oSediment that is light enough to be carried by water without touching the stream bed is called suspended sediment, and is visible as cloudy or milky areas osediment, and is visible as cloudy or milky areas of water.

Dust storms come in various shapes and sizes, but regardless of their variations, what they do is similar — they carry dust and sediment from one place to another, regardless of who or what is in their path.

But I got weathered Into wet sediments Carried to the ocean There the little bits of me Layered with other sediments.

The sediments carried by that river tend to deposit on the sides of the river's current, causing predictable sand bars that force another type of point break.

This is due to the fact that it is glacial water, and carries lots of sediments that glacial ice has carved off the Earth over the years.

However, it does not appear that granite and / or metasedimentary sediment carried to the coast by the North Stann Creek or even the Sittee and South Stann Creek has had any great effect in building up any of the cayes; nearly all the sand on the cayes in carbonate sand.

While there is some cause for optimism that GE will carry through with the project — after all, it has spent $ 620 million on a state - of - the - art facility to process PCB - laden river sediment — the company's track record leaves considerable room for doubt.

Extraction of 5 — 10 g of freeze - dried sediments was carried out using an accelerated solvent extractor (DIONEX, ASE200; 100 °C, 5 min, 1000 psi) with dichloromethane: methanol (2:1, v / v) as a solvent.

The carbon loss occurred first through the removal of the original vegetation, which stored much carbon in its leaves, stems and trunks; then through the oxidation of carbon in newly exposed soils; and finally through increased soil erosion, which carried away much of the organic - rich sediment during flooding.

Might be illuminating: «Dams, artificial channeling, and land conservation measures have caused a decrease in sediment carried into the delta region, decreasing the rate of build up of the Delta.»

According to the invention, sediments including clathrate - rich material disturbed from the sea floor are carried upward, with the aid of injection gas.

Assaulted by sediment carried in floods, some canals suffered metres of erosion in a short space of time.

They found that the dense, salty water from the Marmara Sea — which leads out to the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas at the other end of the Bosphorus — is flowing out of the strait and along the bottom of the Black Sea, carrying along sediment and nutrients that could be key in providing vital nutrients to remote parts of the ocean.

Individual dust plumes from this source are clearly evident in MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) true color imagery (28), occur ≈ 100 times per year, average 370 km × 700 km in area, carry 700,000 tons of sediment, and are responsible for up to 40 % of the Aerosol Optical Thickness (AOT) over the equatorial Atlantic and Amazon basin (12).