Word: sediment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...herd of them, searching desperately for water, must have lumbered out on the caked floor of a dried-up lake. The crust broke and lowered them into soft, smothering clay. Then sediment covered their skeletons and preserved them perfectly. There. Dr. Stirton came upon remains of the great, out-of-date beasts, some of them with their legs doubled under them as they waited for death. He hopes that more digging will turn up, among other things, the delicate skeletons of baby diprotodons that were smothered in their mothers' pouches when they sank into...
With Dantesque confidence, Miss Carson moves down into the sunless depths of the sea, describes the bottom sediment (in some places 10,000 feet deep), sketches the contours of the submarine mountain ranges, and speculates on the changes in sea shape. As she tells her story with scientific assurance and a happy freedom from scientific jargon, curious bits of information emerge...
...There are eerie regions of sediment which, for reasons that remain unknown, are carpeted with a soft, red substance devoid of any organic remains but sharks' teeth and the ear bones of whales...
...oarsmen this morning will launch a rigorous spring vacation practice program that starts at around 7:30 a.m. "No more breakfast than a glass of juice and a cup of coffee," the wily coach warned them yesterday. "There's already enough sediment in the river...