At the behest of the geologya sediment is the word used to refer to that solid material that has accumulated on the surface of the earth and that was the result of various actions caused by phenomena or by processes that occurred in the atmosphere, biosphere and hydrospherehow to be: winds, temperature fluctuations, rain, circulation of both surface and underground water, actions of living organisms or chemical agentsamong other.
Meanwhile, a concept closely related to this term is that of sedimentationas designated by process by which a moving sediment becomes deposited. Among the most common sedimentation stands out the one from which the solid material is transported by a water current that has the capacity to transport that solid in suspension and ends up being deposited at the bottom of either a river, a reservoir, an artificial channel, among others.
It should be noted that most of the sedimentation processes occur within the framework of a gravity scenario, for which the most depressed areas of the lithosphere are more affected by sedimentation. Meanwhile, those depressions that the lithosphere presents are designated with the concept of sedimentary basins.
Also, the term sediment refers to aquella matter that after having been suspended in a liquid settles at the bottom of the container that contains it.
And somehow taking the mentioned references, in common language the word is used with a metaphorical sense to account for the mark that a situation or event leaves recorded in an individual.
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