Detritus vs Sediment - What's the difference?
detritus | sediment |
(countable, chiefly, geological) pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion.
(biology) Organic waste material from decomposing dead plants or animals.
debris or fragments of disintegrated material
A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.
As nouns the difference between detritus and sediment
is that detritus is pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion while sediment is a collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.As a verb sediment is
to deposit material as a sediment.detritus
English
Noun
(wikipedia detritus)- 2001'. "But of course: no clutter. No newspapers, no renegade scraps of domestic '''detritus , no rubber bands, paper clips, coupons, pens or pencils, notebooks, magazines. No knives. Where were the knives?" — Chip Kidd. ''The Cheese Monkeys
Derived terms
* detrital * detritivoresediment
English
(wikipedia sediment)Noun
(en noun)- The Nile delta is composed of sediment that was washed down and deposited at the mouth of the river.
