sedimentary deposits in a sentence
Examples
- Erosion has also played a large part in shaping the Highlands, forming extensive sedimentary deposits and wearing down the mountains.
- In this now-classic paper there is a presentation of evidence on how rain and rivers cause erosion and sedimentary deposits.
- As the sedimentary deposits were compacted, water was squeezed out, hence turning clay minerals into mica, and then solid mudstone.
- The middle sedimentary deposits are lacustrine, corresponding to the ancient Lonyuman lake interval found at other locations throughout the Turkana Basin.
- The Logan River later cut down through these sedimentary deposits following the draining of Lake Bonneville approximately 14, 500 years ago.
- This is due in part to the formation of the delta over the last few centuries from the river's sedimentary deposits.
- Most of the impact structure is filled by a sedimentary deposit, reaching a thickness of about 156 m in the center.
- Since their deposition they have been extensively deformed, eroded, intruded by lavas, and largely covered by igneous bodies and sedimentary deposits.
- The sedimentary deposit in Precordillera is recognized as " typifying low-latitude stable Appalachian platform, suggesting the origin of Precordillera from Laurentia.
- Subaqueous volcanic deposits are associated with subaqueous sedimentary deposits and these deposits range from near shore, off-shore and abyssal mudstone deposits.