Additional sediment accumulated during the upswell resulting in the floor of the basin as it exists today.

An arm of the sea entered and sediments accumulated.

These sediments accumulate on the ocean floor within areas characterized by little planktonic production.

Sediment trap - a depression where sediments substantially accumulate over time.

Any depression in a marine environment where sediments accumulate over time is known as a sediment trap.

These sediments accumulate within the basins on either side of an island arc.

This brings us again to the vital question of where sediments actually accumulate at the present day.

These sediments accumulated to form a sedimentary basin, and make up the island's bedrock.

Until 1796 varved sediment was accumulating on the bottom of Ragundasjön.

Perhaps the most powerful application of these data is to determine the rate at which the sediment accumulated.