sediment
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Unlike Patagonia's imposing white walls, San Juan's glaciers are icy formations covered by sediment, rocks or debris, and almost blend into the mountain itself.
From Barron's • Jun. 15, 2026
Evans surmises the fish that survived were in an area of the creek where less charred material and sediment were swept in.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Across Nigeria's oil-rich southern Niger Delta, decades of oil spills have left a landscape deeply scarred, with wetlands increasingly coated in crude and contaminated sediment.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
The researchers analyzed sediment cores from China's Songliao Basin that were deposited around 83 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period.
From Science Daily • May 27, 2026
But this is the truth: When I leaned over to peer into the river, the water was not brown and full of sediment, but perfectly clear.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
Vocabulary lists containing sediment
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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