sediment

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A microbial film on the outer surface of the carcass then attracted clay particles from the surrounding wet sediment through electrostatic forces.

From Science Daily

However, scientists were unsure whether those teeth came from exactly the same sediment layer as the foot.

From Science Daily

Both the heated fluids from below and the cooler, methane-filled gases from the sediments move upward through the same pathways.

From Science Daily

The fish bypass will follow the original path of the Yuba River, before the federal government constructed a submerged concrete dam to contain mining debris and sediment in the early 1900s, officials said.

From Los Angeles Times

The origin of this miniature sculpture likely stretches back some four billion years, when the sediments that make up the base of Gale Crater were being deposited, Schwenzer says.

From Scientific American