sediment

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By analyzing ancient sediment layers from lakes on K'gari, located off Queensland's south eastern coast, scientists uncovered signs of a major drying period about 7,500 years ago during the middle Holocene.

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Nematodes can be found in deep ocean sediments, Arctic environments, and even highly saline soils.

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Students and volunteers painstakingly washed and sorted through large amounts of sediment.

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Last year the BBC told of people who lived near a data centre in Georgia in the USA who were struggling with an excessive build-up of sediment in water supplies.

From BBC

"Roughly 90% of the dissolved iron coming out of the ice shelf cavity comes from deep waters and sediments outside the cavity, not from meltwater," Chinni said.

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