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Sediment vs Detrital - What's the difference?

sediment | detrital |

As a noun sediment

is sediment.

As an adjective detrital is

(geology) consisting of, or pertaining to, geological detritus.

sediment

English

(wikipedia sediment)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.
    • The Nile delta is composed of sediment that was washed down and deposited at the mouth of the river.

    Hyponyms

    * dregs * grounds * grout * settlings

    Related terms

    * sedimentary * sedimentation

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To deposit material as a sediment.
  • To be deposited as a sediment.

    • Anagrams

    * * * * ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Noun

    • Declension

    {{sh-decl-noun , sedìment, sedimenti , sedimenta, sedimen?ta / sedim?nt? , sedimentu, sedimentima , sediment, sedimente , sedimente, sedimenti , sedimentu, sedimentima , sedimentom, sedimentima }}

    detrital

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (geology) Consisting of, or pertaining to, geological detritus.
  • * {{quote-book, 1964, N.D. Bespalov, Soils of Outer Mongolia, page=172 citation
    • passage=The light-chestnut soils are much more detrital than the chestnut varieties — not only at the surface but throughout the soil strata, except on sandy tracts. }}

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