"accumulate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The rivers eventually became blocked with accumulating sand and sediment as the sea level rose.
- Seas, oceans and lakes accumulate sediment over time.
- The basin is still gradually sinking, and still gradually accumulating sediment.
- Effective surface area and geometry may change as accumulating sediment fills part of the originally constructed volume.
- The majority of tidal inlets on longshore drift shores accumulate sediment in flood and ebb shoals.
- A large block of ice broke off the receding ice front and was surrounded by accumulating sediment.
- There are three artificial groynes had been placed at northern part of the sandspit, to accumulate sediment from longshore drift.
- Grain flows occur when the windward side accumulates too much sediment, the angle of repose is reached and the sediment tumbles down.
- Rapidly accumulating sandy sediment on a steep slope, in an active tectonic region, is likely to be susceptible to failure during moderately large earthquakes.
- It is estimated to take approximately a century to accumulate enough sediment in the canyon head to generate a major mass failure.
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