Sediments is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SEDIMENTS in dictionary:

VERB:
• SEDIMENT, to settle in the bottom of a liquid
• settle as sediment
• (of a liquid) deposit a sediment
• deposit (something) as a sediment
NOUN:
• matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; dregs
• particulate matter that is carried by water or wind and deposited on the surface of the land or the seabed, and may in time become consolidated into rock
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to settle to the bottom of a liquid

Words related to SEDIMENTS

sediment11 sedimented14 sedimenting15

How to use SEDIMENTS in a sentence

• We may, however, proceed by measurements of the mass of the sediments, and then the method becomes more definite.
• Thus it follows that, if we can estimate the average annual rate of the river supply of sediments to the ocean over the past, we can calculate the required age.
• Now this is almost certainly excessive, for we here assume that the rate of covering of the primary rocks by sediments was uniform.
• This involves a concentration in the sediments of the more insoluble constituents.
• Its high value in the sediments is due to its restoration from the ocean to the land.
• The iron of the sediments shows increased oxidation.
• The most recent and probable estimates of the sediments on the land assign an average thickness of one mile of 44 secondary rocks over the land area of the world.
• We can estimate the amount of rock which has been degraded by solvent and chemical actions, and the amount of sediments which has been derived from it.
• We are, 46 thus, able to amend our estimate of the sediments which, as determined by direct observation, served to support the basis of our argument.
• The sediments derived therefrom possessed a bulk of 220 million cubic kilometres or fifty million cubic miles.
• Movements of the land during geological time have resulted in some portion being uplifted along with other sediments.
• The ocean a little way from the land is generally so free from suspended sediments that it has a blackness as of ink.
• Thus on either side of the American continent we have the same forces at work, throwing up mountain ridges where the sediments had formerly been shed into the ocean.
• When, however, we take into account the radioactive content of the sediments the matter assumes a different aspect.
• The sediments are, however, less radioactive in the proportion of 4 to 3.
• To them the great accumulations of sediments which now form so large a part of continental land are mainly due.
• This theory is borne out by the fact that oil deposits are usually found in marine sediments, sea fossils being frequently met with.

Similar words containing SEDIMENT without suffix s

sediment11 sedimented14 sedimentary17 sedimenting15 sedimentous14 sedimentable17 sedimentarily19 sedimentation16 sedimentology20 sedimentations17 sedimentologic20 nonsedimentable20 sedimentologies19 sedimentologist19 sedimentologica21 sedimentological22 sedimentologists20 sedimentologically27

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