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- till are ice-transported sediments. Sediment can be classified based on its grain size, grain shape, and composition. Sediment size is measured on a log...
- three main types of pelagic sediments: siliceous oozes, calcareous oozes, and red clays. The composition of pelagic sediments is controlled by three main...
- sediments, either in unconsolidated deposits or in sedimentary rocks. The degree of sorting is determined by the range of grain sizes in a sediment deposit...
- component of lithogenous sediments, including sand. Biogenous sediments come from the remains of living organisms that settle out as sediment when the organisms...
- smaller sediments are washed away. The smaller sediments present under this layer of large gravel have a lower possibility of movement and total sediment transport...
- A sediment basin is a temporary pond built on a construction site to capture eroded or disturbed soil that is washed off during rain storms, and protect...
- A sediment control is a practice or device designed to keep eroded soil on a construction site, so that it does not wash off and cause water pollution...
- source rocks; deposition of these sediments is largely limited to the continental shelf. Sources of terrigenous sediments include volcanoes, weathering of...
- polymers as well as any insoluble material added to ****ist clarification. Sediments in bottled wines are relatively rare[citation needed], and usually, signal...
- Compaction takes place as the sediments come under increasing overburden (lithostatic) pressure from overlying sediments. Sediment grains move into more compact...