Notwithstanding her jealousy of the Vincys and of Mary Garth, there remained as the nethermost sediment in her mental shallows a persuasion that her brother Peter Featherstone could never leave his chief property away from his blood-relations:—else, why had the Almighty carried off his two wives both childless, after he had gained so much by manganese and things, turning up when nobody expected it?
Presently they came to a place where a little stream of water, trickling over a ledge and carrying a limestone sediment with it, had, in the slow-dragging ages, formed a laced and ruffled Niagara in gleaming and imperishable stone.
"It could be a change in sediment supply, from further up or down the coast which has brought a fresh amount of sediment to the beach," he said.
But the explosive numbers of the insects–called Goeldichironomus–were an alarming indication of how polluted the river has become, he said, since their eggs thrive on phosphorus and sediment in the water.
Around the same time, geological sediment ssuggest massive flooding occurred, and the later-Han dynasty document "The Chronicles of the Kings of Shu" records ancient floods pouring from amountain in a spot that suggests the flow being rerouted, Fan said.
Past glacial ages occurred partly because the weathering of rocks, over millions of years, pulls CO2 from the atmosphere, locking it in ocean floor sediment.
The racks, as tall as a man, were invented in the nineteenth century to solve the problem of the sediment that forms in the bottle as a result of fermentation.
