Sentences with phrase «tons of sediment»

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).

1 billion tons of sediment tends to do things like this.

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.

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

Each of the river's identities — as the fertile nurturer and the wanton killer — derives from the same feature: the 1 billion tons of sediment that washes down each year from the Loess Plateau to the Bohai Sea.

The levees disconnect the river and an estimated 210 million tons of sediment that would naturally flow down to the delta and build the wetlands and the seafloor.

Across the species» range from Baja California, Mexico, to Alaska, bioerosion on urchin - covered sandstone reefs, the researchers report, produces sediment approximately equivalent to that delivered to the coast by a river — some 200 tons of sediment per hectare — suggesting that when you stroll along the beach, a not insignificant chunk of the sand is, in fact, sea urchin waste.

«Potential impacts of planned Andean Amazon dams outweigh benefits, scientists say: Scientists used historical data and models to predict that almost 900 million tons of sediments would be retained by 6 potential new Andean dams on the Amazon river system.»

Not exact matches

It helped that the sediments contained «literal crap tons» of mastodon dung, a rich source of organic matter that was perfect for dating, she says.

For thousands of years, the Nile River flooded yearly and brought with it 4 million metric tons (4.4 million short tons) of nutrient - rich sediment.

Researchers from Ohio State University who measured carbon while a typhoon was passing through in full force in Taiwan — essential since sediment washes away very quickly after a storm — found that more than 400 tons of carbon was being swept away for each square mile of watershed during the storm.

It found that the six dams would retain nearly 900 million tons of river sediment annually, preventing those nutrients from reaching floodplains, potentially affecting food security downstream.