bottom sediment in a sentence
Examples
- A "'water column "'is a conceptual column of water from the surface of a sea, river or lake to the bottom sediments.
- Since the late 19th century, dredging of river bottom sediments has been done to allow large ships to enter the Fox River.
- The heavier bottom sediment layer is removed by a chain and flight scraper ( or similar device ) and a sludge pump.
- It is a small ( up to 5 mm ) species which burrows in bottom sediments, between 10 and 80 metres deep.
- One thought is that this trilobite may have lain in wait for prey buried in the bottom sediment with only its periscope eyestalks protruding.
- A tiny copepod crustacean, " Leptocaris stromatolicolus ", is known only from the interstices of these stromatolites and bottom sediments in the saline pools.
- Hexasterophorans have skeletons composed of overlapping six-rayed substratum; less often rooted by the anchoring spicules and rarely inserted directly into the loose bottom sediments.
- When the cyanobacteria die and sink to the bottom they consume oxygen leading to further hypoxia and more phosphorus is released from bottom sediments.
- In the environment endrin exists as either endrin aldehyde or endrin ketone and can be found mainly in bottom sediments of bodies of water.
- The material that was thrown into the air by the steam, mainly old lake bottom sediments, was deposited around the new vent in little mounds.