deposition

In a sentence

Six example sentences with deposition, each labelled with its topic.

• Slow deposition on the lake bed leaves one pale band each spring, so counting the bands dates the whole core.

  Science

• The dam stopped the river's deposition of silt downstream, and within thirty years the delta began losing ground to the sea.

  Environment

• Centuries of soot deposition darkened the cathedral stone, and the cleaning crew uncovered a pale gold surface nobody alive remembered.

  Architecture

• Years of calcium deposition had stiffened the valve, and the surgeon could see the pale crust on the scan.

  Medicine

• Silt deposition from a thousand spring floods buried the Roman harbor twelve feet below what is now farmland.

  History

• Visitors cross boardwalks over the terraces, where mineral deposition from the hot springs adds a fresh white layer each year.

  Travel

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