sediment

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When combined with other impact indicators found in the same sediment layer -- including the black mat, nanodiamonds, and impact spherules -- the shocked quartz discoveries add weight to the impact hypothesis.

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Their work revealed 19 major groupings of valleys, streams, lakes, canyons, and sediment deposits.

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A video he took around 1 p.m. shows bulldozers and other heavy machinery scooping heaps of sediment and moving logs.

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This process removes carbon from the atmosphere and stores it in ocean sediments.

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Researchers collected 50 sediment samples from along the drain, which stretched roughly nine meters and carried waste from a communal latrine into a stream north of the fort.

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