Definition of Sediments

1. Noun. (plural of sediment) ¹

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Definition of Sediments

1. sediment [v] - See also: sediment

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sediments

sedimentation coefficient
sedimentation constant
sedimentation rate
sedimentation velocity
sedimentations
sedimentator
sedimented
sedimenting
sedimentologic
sedimentological
sedimentologies
sedimentologist
sedimentologists
sedimentology
sedimentometer
sediments
sedimentum
sedimentum lateritium
sedition
seditionaries
seditionary
seditions
seditious
seditiously
seditiousness
seditiousnesses
sedoheptulose
sedoheptulose-bisphosphatase
sedovite
seduc't

Literary usage of Sediments

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin by Ghana Geological Survey (1898)
"... has divided the sediments up into the following succession— V36 Upper quartz sandstones. V3a Clay gall sandstones. V2b Red, green and purple arkosic ..."

2. Permafrost: North American Contribution [to The] Second International Conference by Building Research Advisory Board Staff (1973)
"Variations in soluble chemical composition of the reworked and unmodified sediments provide further documentation of depositional events and ..."

3. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"Consolidation of Organic Sediments.—With respect to their consolidation deposits resulting directly or indirectly from organic processes may be regarded as ..."

4. The Fundamental Principles of Petrology by Ernst Weinschenk (1916)
"Composition of the Sediments.—The materials forming the sediments are derived both from the weathering solutions and the weathered residues. ..."

5. Chemical and Geological Essays by Thomas Sterry Hunt (1875)
"the mean composition of the argillaceous sediments of any geological epoch, or, in other words, the proportion between the alkalies and the alumina, ..."

6. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"DEPOSITION IN SEAS AND LAKES Source and Extent of Land-derived Sediments.—The sediments carried to the ocean by the streams and the fragments broken from ..."

7. Geological Report of the Midland Counties of North Carolina by North Carolina State Geologist (1856)
"Origin of the Sediments.—How distinguished from the Eruptive, ... Sediments, consist of abraded particles from pre-existing rocks. These, in most instances, ..."

8. Metamorphic Geology: A Text-book by Charles Kenneth Leith, Warren Judson Mead (1915)
"If this represents 2.75 per cent of the total amount of igneous rocks required to supply the ocean salts and sediments, this amount is 847000 x 1012 metric ..."

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