What's the difference between alluvial and sediment?

Alluvial


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The influence of salt mixtures consisting of Ca(H2PO4)2, trace elements, CaSO4, CaCO3, Na2CO3, NaCl and K2SO4 in different combinations on the nitrifying power, evolution of carbon dioxide and the total number of bacteria was studied in arid soils (sandy and alluvial) and semi-humid ones (chernozem and rendzina).
  • (2) Adsorption and movement of carbofuran (a systemic nematicide) were studied using two Indian soils (clay loam and silt loam) of alluvial origin.
  • (3) Most of the new habitats, unlike previously known areas, are not in alluvial plains, but are at higher elevations.
  • (4) Zimbabwe also has the world's second biggest platinum reserves and hugely controversial deposits of alluvial diamonds .
  • (5) Alluvial soils were more favorable than eroded hill soils.
  • (6) Movement and Metabolism of 32P and 35S-double labeled Kitazin P (S-benzyl O,O-diisopropyl phosphorothiolate) and 35S-labeled edifenphos (O-ethyl S,S-diphenyl phosphorodithiolate) were examined with three types of soils, sandy loam, alluvial clay loam, and volcanic ash loam.
  • (7) The rate of biological nitrogen fixation was determined by the acetylene technique in soils and on the roots of orange, mandarin and lemon trees growing in red, yellow, podzolic, alluvial brown forest, and humus-calcareous soils.
  • (8) Vertical movement of both the compounds in soil column was different with soil types, and the order of mobility in soil column was as follows: sandy loam greater than alluvial clay loam greater than volcanic ash loam.
  • (9) Over 5 day incubation under flooded conditions, greater volatile loss of lindane occurred in sandy soil than in alluvial soil apparanetly due to greater adsorption to the soil colloids decreasing the insecticide concentration in the standing water on the laterite soil.
  • (10) By the 1890s our town was full of miners toiling to extract what was left of its alluvial gold.
  • (11) and Pseudomonas sp., were isolated from parathionamended flooded alluvial soil which exhibited parathion-hydrolyzing ability.
  • (12) However, the city is known for its numerous potholes mostly on the side streets because of the alluvial soil which is always shifting and moving depending on whether it's wet or dry.
  • (13) Salt mixtures comprising either monocalcium phosphate or sodium chloride showed highly inhibiting action on the studied microbial activities in sandy, alluvial, and chernozem soils, while monocalcium phosphate stimulated the heterotrophs of rendzina.
  • (14) Samples from two depths (0--15 and 15--30 cm) of five Egyptian soils: sandy, calcareous, fertile alluvial, saline alluvial, and alkali alluvial were tested for urease activity.
  • (15) Kitazin P under flooded condition of alluvial clay loam was slightly more persistent as compared with upland condition.
  • (16) A real political life can be restored in a Labour party that has received an alluvial flood of new members.
  • (17) Shenhua has consistently argued that the Watermark mine would not affect the plains’ alluvial aquifers, which feed the Namoi catchment, because the three open-cut pits will be on ridges above the plains.
  • (18) The influence of different doses of boron (100, 500 and 1000 ppm) and cadmium (50, 100, 500, 1000 and 2000 ppm) on the activity of nitrogen fixation in the sandy and alluvial soil has been studied.
  • (19) The rover took the images with a telephoto camera on its central mast, downhill from a pattern of sediments called an alluvial fan created by several water streams perhaps billions of years ago.
  • (20) The soil was found to be of great variability, being fertile where it was of alluvial origin but of reduced potential where it was non-alluvial.

Sediment


Definition:

  • (n.) The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.
  • (n.) The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This clinical improvement was also associated with a decrease of erythrocyte sedimentation rate (p less than 0.001), decrease of C-reactive protein (p less than 0.0001) and with improvement of anaemia (p less than 0.05).
  • (2) The erythrocyte sedimentation rate is almost always markedly elevated.
  • (3) Histone mRNA, labeled with 32P or 3H-methionine during the S phase of partially synchronized HeLa cells, was isolated from the polyribosomes and purified as a "9S" component by sucrose gradient sedimentation.
  • (4) In cases without septic complications the level returned to normal within seven days, while the sedimentation rate only became normal after three months.
  • (5) The distance of nucleoid sedimentation increased as a function of exposure temperature and exposure time, and was proportional to an increased protein to DNA ratio in the nucleoids.
  • (6) Urinalysis revealed a low pH, increased ketones and bilirubin excretion, dark yellowish change in color, the appearance of "leaflet-shaped" crystals and increased red blood cells and epithelial cells in the urinary sediment, increased water intake, decreased specific gravity and decreased sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine.
  • (7) Neutral sucrose density sedimentation patterns indicate that neutron-induced double strand-breaks sometimes occur in clusters of more than 100 in the same phage and that the effeciency with which double strand-breaks form is about 50 times that of gamma-induced double strand-breaks.
  • (8) Partially purified VLPs were found to sediment at 183S in sucrose gradients and to cross-react with antibody in acute phase sera from geographically isolated cases of ET-NANBH.
  • (9) The following factors were studied: relative ability to adsorb virus, sedimentation of the adsorbing components, heat lability of the components, virus elution, and recovery of cell-associated virus.
  • (10) Other than an elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate, there are no consistent laboratory abnormalities, and cultures of affected bone are negative.
  • (11) A molecular weight of 51,500 was determined from sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, while sedimentation equilibrium ultracentrifugation gave a value of 49,500.
  • (12) Mononucleosomes obtained from labeled cells were fractionated by rate zonal sedimentation through a sucrose gradient in heavy water (Senshu et al.
  • (13) Microbiological analyses of sediments located near a point source for petrogenic chemicals resulted in the isolation of a pyrene-mineralizing bacterium.
  • (14) The major form, an amphiphilic dimer (G2a) which sediments at 5.3 S, and the minor form, an amphiphilic monomer (G1a) which sediments at 3.5 S. Extraction in the presence of the sulfhydryl alkylating agent N-ethylmaleimide was required to preserve the G2a form.
  • (15) A sedimentation coefficient of 5.6S was also determined.
  • (16) Seventy-four strains of Aeromonas hydrophila isolated from water and sediments of the River Porma (León, N.W.
  • (17) Human granulocytes from the peripheral blood of healthy donors were subjected to transient gravity sedimentation analysis in Ficoll density gradient columns (37 degrees C) containing different concentrations of Escherichia coli endotoxin-activated serum and medium 199.
  • (18) Sedimentation-velocity experiments indicate the M. elsdenii enzyme (s20,w = 4.95 S) to be essentially globular, while the D. vulgaris enzyme (s20,w = 4.1 S) has a less symmetric shape.
  • (19) Membranes were fractionated into material that sedimented at 20,000g and 100,000g.
  • (20) The flounder developed renal and pancreatic neoplasms and hepatotoxic neoplastic precursor lesions, demonstrating trophic transfer of sediment-bound carcinogens up the food chain.