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The particles that form a sedimentary rock by accumulating are called sediment.
All types of sediment are found in the Adriatic, with the bulk of the material transported by the Po and other rivers on the western coast.
There, a small probe and dissecting microscope were used to isolate diplectanids from the gills or sediment.
Trapping of littoral drift sediment, preventing it from reaching downcoast beaches.
Where clastic sediment inputs are small, biogenic sedimentation can dominate especially nearshore sedimentation.
In all present femora, sediment and other bones obscure the caudodistal part.
Rocky or seawalled shorelines, that otherwise have no sediment, present unique problems.
Molecular polymerization, resulting from high pressures and temperatures produced by overlying sediment, transforms the resin first into copal.
Tidal energy removal can also cause environmental concerns such as degrading farfield water quality and disrupting sediment processes.
Catastrophic failure of the containing ice or glacial sediment can release this water over periods of minutes to days.
The footprints were found in sediment, partially covered by beach sand, at low tide on the foreshore at Happisburgh.
Sedimentary rocks are formed when sediment is deposited out of air, ice, wind, gravity, or water flows carrying the particles in suspension.
This sediment is often formed when weathering and erosion break down a rock into loose material in a source area.
Some of those processes cause the sediment to consolidate into a compact, solid substance from the originally loose material.
The lithostatic pressure in the rock increases due to the weight of the overlying sediment.
Under anoxic circumstances, however, organic material cannot decay and leaves a dark sediment, rich in organic material.
Mudcracks are a bed form caused by the dehydration of sediment that occasionally comes above the water surface.
Such structures form by chemical, physical and biological processes within the sediment.
It can be a valuable indicator of the biological and ecological environment that existed after the sediment was deposited.
After deposition, physical processes can deform the sediment, producing a third class of secondary structures.
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