Sedimentation is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.
You can make 1541 anagrams from letters in sedimentation (adeeiimnnostt).
First recorded in 1870-75; sediment + -ation
Where oceanic currents are annually reversed by monsoons, sedimentation may be regularly varied, or interrupted, once a year.
In the selection of key horizons, knowledge of the conditions of sedimentation is very important.
Varying winds may348 drive currents this way and that, causing alternations in sedimentation.
Through the sorting processes of sedimentation,—the same processes which form sandstone, shale, and limestone.
Such ores are not always easy to discriminate from ores resulting primarily from sedimentation.
The sedimentation process, moreover, raises river channels above the level of the nearby terrain.
sedimentation is still going on at river mouths and along the coasts, where deltas are being built and mangrove thickets flourish.
sedimentation from this point of view is a convection of energy.
The subject is closely related to geography, climatology, sedimentation, and hydrology.
For instance, an igneous rock may become a schist without going through the intermediate stage of sedimentation.
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