bottom sediment in a sentence
Examples
- They scrape and bite food of many kinds as well as stirring up the bottom sediment, filtering out larger particles with the papillae around their mouths.
- The potential for TP to leave the bottom sediments and become available to algae in the water column ( internal loading ) is low to moderate.
- The depth of the oxic / anoxic interface separating the two layers varies from a few centimeters to near the bottom sediments, depending on local conditions.
- This made the bottom sediments more hospitable, and allowed a wider range of organisms to inhabit them creating new niches and the scope for higher diversity.
- The exposed lake bottom sediments were blown by the prevailing westerly winds to form the sand dunes that still lie on the east side of Summer Lake.
- For instance, a suitably weighted metal tube, hack-sawed off like a giant hypodermic syringe, with a cord attached for retrieval, can by used to get bottom sediment samples.
- Seismic studies by the Russians indicate that the lake water could be more than 2, 000 feet deep, with bottom sediments about 500 feet deep at one end.
- Many of those chemicals, including PCBs, seem to enter the food chain as they seep out of the lake-bottom sediments where they've settled over decades of industrial use.
- What makes this location special is that the calcareous ocean-bottom sediment that was deposited here never turned to hard stone as it does almost everywhere else in the region.
- An expedition last year found that concentrations of Cesium-137 and Strontium-90 in bottom sediments at two of the dumps were dozens of times above normal levels, the statement said.