Meanings of fine sediment in English

Rivers wear away their banks and carry them along in their waters in the form of a fine sediment.

Now here; do you see this narrow belt of fine sediment That was deposited while the water was higher.

Increased fine sediment accumulations and deficits of pebbles and small cobbles below dams indicated a severe habitat loss below dams.

The icy streams that flowed out from the glaciers were full of fine sediment, which they deposited over enormous flood plains.

However, experiments in the laboratory found that the fine sediment settles on the eggs and suffocates them, by preventing oxygen transferring into the egg.

Similarly a rocky mountaintop is a poor place for fossils to form with no fine sediments being laid down.

The Queensland Government's Water Science Taskforce recently warned that fine sediments were one of the greatest threats to water quality in the Great Barrier Reef.