"sediment" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The lower basin is made up of young sediments, including laterite and recent alluvium.
- Disconformities show erosional features such as valleys, hills and cliffs that are later covered by younger sediments.
- Ehux is only seen in relatively young sediments, and must have evolved fairly recently.
- The crater is buried beneath younger sediments and cannot be seen at the surface.
- Later such fossils turn out to be freed from the original seam and refossilized in a younger sediment.
- The crater is buried beneath younger sediments and is not exposed at the surface.
- The dolomite was later deeply buried by younger sediment.
- Angular unconformity: younger sediment lies upon an eroded surface of tilted or folded older rocks.
- Nonconformity: relatively young sediments are deposited right above older igneous or metamorphic rocks.
- Over 5000 feet (1500 m) of younger sediments were deposited and have been mostly eroded away.
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