sediment

Converse of object

• overlie: This may provide a locally significant input of clay, sand and gravel derived from Eocene bedrock and overlying drift sediment.
• suspend: However, the longer duration of the flood tidal stream causes net input of suspended sediments.
• erode: These finds are now under threat as they become exposed due to the eroding sediments.
• dredge: At present, the dredged sediments are disposed of outside the harbor, thus losing valuable mud from its ecosystem.

Converse of subject

• infilled: Whilst some continue to exist as isolated small loughs, many have now been infilled by sediment washing off the surrounding drumlins.

Preposition: within

• hollow: Whatever the stimulus for erosion and deposition, the sediments within these hollows typically contain an important record of local environmental change.

Adjective modifier

• fine-grained: Transport and escape of fine-grained sediment from shelf areas.
• coarse: By contrast, the annual yield of coarse sediment is considered to be less than 500m 3.
• littoral: A wide range of littoral sediments occurs within the estuary.
• estuarine: These conclusions are based on analysis of the carbonate content of offshore, beach and estuarine sediments.
• sublittoral: Sublittoral sediments are predominantly medium sands with a low organic content.
• intertidal: This information needs supplementary data, but suggests a possible storage volume of intertidal sediment of between 55 and 400 x 106m 3.

Modifies a noun

• flux: These daily gaging stations provide the best information available on sediment flux in the Nation's rivers.
• deposition: Tests were also carried out with small depths of sediment deposition.
• accumulation: Sediment accumulation rates vary considerably through this period, with vey rapid sedimentation in the last 200 years.
• entrainment: The study of sediment entrainment from rippled beds continues.

Noun used with modifier

• seabed: However, some reworking of seabed sediments in the Solent is a probable auxiliary source.
• deep-sea: This indicates that deep-sea sediments constitute a very important source of DON to the world ocean.
• carbonate: Clare Britton has added carbonate sediments and weathering to the simple Earth system model to look even further into the future.
• lake: Samples of pollen taken from cores bored from deep peat bogs or lake sediments are stratified, with the earliest part lying deepest.