Pronunciation of sediment

Pronunciation of the English word sediment.

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Pronounce sediment in English


sediment in a sentence

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1. By means of a super high-pressure water spray practically all the sediment is removed.
2. The scientists assembled dozens of temperature records from multiple studies, including data from sediment cores drilled in lake bottoms and sea floors, and from ice cores.
3. Currents, waves, and wind normally transport sediment throughout the littoral system. Armoring of the coast can interfere with littoral transport, which in a natural state may reach a dynamic equilibrium.
4. The Mississippi River carries millions of tons of nutrient-rich sediment into the Gulf each year.
5. Sediment cores from the bottom of Yellowstone’s lakes contain fossils of pollen deposited during the Late Pleistocene. These pollen records show which plants were present at that time and allow researchers to infer climate conditions.
6. Sedimentary rock contains fossils because it was built up layer upon layer, often trapping and preserving animals, plants, footprints, and more within the layers of sediment.
7. If all the conditions are right, fossils are formed as the layers of sediment turn into rock.
8. Stromatolites are the limestone structures formed by photosynthesizing bacteria called cyanobacteria. They created layers of alternating slimy bacteria and sediment in very shallow water, dominating shallow seas until predators, such as trilobites, came into the picture.
9. Agriculture, forestry and urbanization are increasing the amount of sediment, chemicals and plastics flowing into the oceans, and contaminating the coastline.
10. Layers of sediment lay at the bottom of the riverbed.

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