Dictionary of synonyms

Synonyms and antonyms of the word: sediments

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Ancient paintings of guanacos and pumas are dotted among the handprints – the paint a mixture of water, blood and natural sediments, sprayed on to the wall through guanaco bones.

Source: https://metro.co.uk/2023/02/27/on-the-puma-trail-and-the-rewilding-of-argentinian-patagonia-18342221/

And they play an even greater role in the fight against climate change as they store huge quantities of carbon, locking it up in the sediments below.

Source: https://www.obantimes.co.uk/2023/09/09/scotland-the-new-wild/

As part of the dam`s removal the state will dispose of contaminated sediments off-site to reduce health risks, officials said.

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2023/12/04/750640.htm

Carbon dating of those sediments confirmed that the scar is at least several hundred years old.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-01-seafloor-video-landslide-source-puerto.html

Gold mineralization is contained within sediments intruded by concordant porphyry sills spanning the length of the mineralized zone.

Source: https://investingnews.com.au/brightstar-resources

Huge amounts of sediments are one of the challenges that Slovenia will have to deal with in the wake of the devastating August floods.

Source: https://sloveniatimes.com/39862/power-company-helps-develop-solutions-to-make-sediment-useful

In the second theory, the pipes are remnants of ancient springs that became choked with sediments, cementing the sediments together into an erosion-resistant rock.

Source: https://suindependent.com/hiking-southern-utah-kodachrome-basin-state-park/

In the second theory, the pipes are remnants of ancient springs that became choked with sediments, cementing the sediments together into an erosion-resistant rock.

Source: https://suindependent.com/hiking-southern-utah-kodachrome-basin-state-park/

Liquefaction is also a threat, which is when “sediments, especially near bodies of water, behave like liquid similar to a quicksand”, according to Phivolcs’ website.

Source: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1724721/aftershocks-after-davao-de-oro-quake-rise-to-390

Little shards and curlicued layers of harder sediments flow and move under all of us, Louisville and Churchill very much included.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/guymartin/2023/06/03/churchill-downs-goes-dark-in-the-wake-of-a-dozen-equine-deaths-in-may/

Meanwhile, many of the homes along the river were built on soft, loose sediments that erode easily.

Source: https://alaskapublic.org/2023/08/14/why-this-years-record-glacial-outburst-flood-likely-wont-be-juneaus-worst/

One difference between fires and logging activity, particularly “salvage logging,” is the repeated remobilization of sediments every time machinery and road construction occurs in a watershed.

Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/05/08/the-effects-of-wildfires-on-aquatic-ecosystems/

“Our DNA results detected five times as many plant varieties as previous studies using shotgun sequencing of ancient sediments, which is well within the range of the richest northern boreal metabarcoding records.”

Source: https://njtoday.news/2023/01/04/environmental-dna-uncovers-a-2-million-year-old-ecosystem-in-greenland/

Production there ended in 1945, but not before soil, sediments and some springs were contaminated.

Source: https://newstalkkzrg.com/2023/07/12/how-americas-push-for-the-atomic-bomb-spawned-enduring-radioactive-waste-problems-in-st-louis/

Researchers from the Soil Cryology Lab in Russia extracted the contents of the hole from Duvanny Yar outcrop in Siberia, a sheer wall of prehistoric sediments.

Source: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/how-a-worm-came-back-to-life-after-46-000-years-frozen-in-the-siberian

Results from K23D40 confirm that the basin consists of coarse-grained sediments west and northwest of the central resource area.

Source: https://investingnews.com/canadian-climate-investor-conference-2023-view-from-the-c-suite/

Salar sediments are subject to compaction as they are buried with compaction generally resulting in a decrease in total and drainable porosity with depth although not all sediments are affected equally by compaction.

Source: https://investingnews.com/cleantech-lithium-prolific-lithium-assets-with-a-sustainable-approach-to-meet-ev-battery-demand/

Salar sediments are subject to compaction as they are buried with compaction generally resulting in a decrease in total and drainable porosity with depth although not all sediments are affected equally by compaction.

Source: https://investingnews.com/cleantech-lithium-prolific-lithium-assets-with-a-sustainable-approach-to-meet-ev-battery-demand/

The Basin that hosts the Daisy Creek project covers about 18 square miles and is mostly composed of fissile, finely laminated sediments.

Source: https://investingnews.com/gmv-minerals-retains-precision-geosurveys-inc-to-fly-helicopter-borne-high-resolution-magnetic-and-radiometric-survey-at-the-daisy-creek-project-in-north-central-nevada/

The nature of the mineral occurrence: Massive stratiform/supergene manganese mineralisation hosted within sediments of the Ullawarra Formation.

Source: https://investingnews.com.au/amended-ev-vision-enhanced