Sentences with phrase «unconsolidated sediments»
Furthermore, recent geophysical data from aerial surveying suggest that one of the two troughs - known as the Central Basin - contains unconsolidated sediments thought to have been derived from the FLIP.
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Much of the countries mineral wealth is still hidden under a thick cover of unconsolidated rock and soil, sediments and igneous rocks.
The sediments in the area consist of unconsolidated poorly sorted gravely carbonate sands.
In the Cascadia earthquake zone on unconsolidated glacial sediments by one of the most ecologically sensitive bays on the USA and one of the most productive agricultural deltas in the country.
The uncertainties can reach centuries or even millennia due to carbon reservoir effects, wrong assumptions about sedimentation rates between and beyond the tie - point ages and due to the «lock - in depth», which means that magnetic particles might remain subject to adjustment while the sediment is still unconsolidated.