sediment balance - définition. Qu'est-ce que sediment balance
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Qu'est-ce (qui) est sediment balance - définition

PARTICULATE MATTER THAT IS DEPOSITED ON THE SURFACE OF LAND
Sediments; Detrital sediment; Sea Sediment; Sedements; Sedimented; Sedimentary soil; Sedimentary layer; Lake sediment; Fluviatile sediment; Sediment (geology)

Sediment         
·noun The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.
II. Sediment ·noun The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.
sediment         
¦ noun
1. matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid.
2. Geology particulate matter carried by water or wind and deposited on the land surface or seabed.
¦ verb settle or deposit as sediment.
Derivatives
sedimentation noun
Origin
C16: from Fr. sediment or L. sedimentum 'settling'.
sediment         
(sediments)
Sediment is solid material that settles at the bottom of a liquid, especially earth and pieces of rock that have been carried along and then left somewhere by water, ice, or wind.
Many organisms that die in the sea are soon buried by sediment.
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Sediment

Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles. For example, sand and silt can be carried in suspension in river water and on reaching the sea bed deposited by sedimentation; if buried, they may eventually become sandstone and siltstone (sedimentary rocks) through lithification.

Sediments are most often transported by water (fluvial processes), but also wind (aeolian processes) and glaciers. Beach sands and river channel deposits are examples of fluvial transport and deposition, though sediment also often settles out of slow-moving or standing water in lakes and oceans. Desert sand dunes and loess are examples of aeolian transport and deposition. Glacial moraine deposits and till are ice-transported sediments.