Use "detritus" in a sentence

1. It also eats algae and detritus.

2. It prefers a fair amount of nutritious detritus.

3. The room was littered with junk food detritus.

4. Progress here has actually meant the arrival of western detritus .

5. The stadium was littered with the detritus of yesterday's rock concert.

6. [Nest and detritus Acarines in Africa south of the Sahara

7. Between the autochthonous reef and the detritus facies a near-reef detritus-facies can be observed, which is characterized by abundant encrusting algae acting as sedimentbinding organisms.

8. A clay base nourished with plant detritus is also sufficient.

9. Unluckily, though, the boyos were not interested in such cheap detritus.

10. Slowly, patiently, silently, over a detritus of cans, wrappers, boxes, papers.

11. But detritus is given no time to accumulate in tropical forests.

12. There was some street detritus which required more imagination than most.

13. Therefore a muddy medium with plenty of plant detritus is essential.

14. Now, BBC America wants you to meet Constable Cheery and Sergeant Detritus

15. Cultivation: A medium containing plenty of mud or clay or detritus is essential.

16. Those sinters are formed of opal-A that replaced microbes, opal-A precipitated as cement, accessory minerals (e.g., kaolinite, jarosite, calcite), biological detritus (e.g., leaves, wood, pollen grains), and lithic detritus.

17. It is also herbivorous, eating algae and detritus, unlike the carnivorous Common Backswimmer

18. The intermediate and acid seamount which maybe exist , may be the main origin of felsic detritus.

19. All this scattered organic detritus is human fascia, fibrous connective tissue that anchors skin to muscles.

20. But principled legislation must be separated from the absolute detritus of paperwork that is Besieging …

21. Cultivation: The planting medium of mud and sand or a gravel medium with detritus should suffice.

22. Wild specimens are known to feed predominantly on insect larvae but will also take algae and detritus.

23. This apparent shift in fine root production as a proportion of NPP may be related to detritus accumulation.

24. The usual amount of organic detritus produced by the fish and plants will be sufficient for its growth.

25. “Our world, like a Charnel-house, lies strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.” ⎯ Le Corbusier, Urbanisme (1925)

26. Cultivation: Very indifferent to conditions, though it will relish a planting medium consisting of nutritious detritus.

27. I pile the detritus on to the tray and put it outside before straightening the sheets.

28. Removal of shoreline vegetation can reduce the Allocthonous input (terrestrial insects and detritus) to the lake, ultimately affecting productivity

29. The nationalist leader did something similar with the cultural detritus of the past to create a new national group.

30. When I try and empty my own mind, every bit of detritus in the world sails by.

31. The dominant source for detritus in the Missi Group was the Flin Flon accretionary collage and associated successor arc rocks.

32. Further, ‘organic N’ (i.e., AerOrN and Anorn) is a composite of all chemical species found in organisms and detritus

33. Cultivation: The ideal growing medium for this species would contain substantial quantities of organic detritus and mud or clay.

34. Others claim to aid the filter process by breaking down the detritus helping filter bacteria to get to work.

35. The detritus is deposited in a bag and the water re-circulated, so no topping up is required.

36. The long roots reach the tank bottom, where the medium should be rich in organic matter, such as plant detritus.

37. In older tanks where the bottom is enriched by detritus, they all do well except for certain kinds with gauze-like leaves.

38. Bajada (plural Bajadas) In the southwestern US, a slope, specifically part of a piedmont slope made of rocky detritus

39. Amphipods will hide, reproduce and come out when it’s safe to forage for algae, detritus and other organic waste

40. Rusted chains hung from roof girders; the floor was concrete, fouled by the windswept detritus of years of abandonment.

41. Alluvium A general term for deposits made up of a mixture of loose rocks that were produced by mechanical means (detritus)

42. Usually made from copper or stainless steel, Chimney caps are designed to stop dirt, animals and other detritus from coming down your Chimney

43. It lives in leaf litter, under bark or in moss, and feeds on encrusting algae, detritus and sometimes fruit such as raspberries.

44. Some other members of the genus tend to eat more plant material; H. inspector has been studied to eat algae, detritus, and also seeds.

45. The larvae live in the silt and detritus at the bottom of the pond, lying buried in mud with just the head and eyes showing.

46. 29 By the end of the night, the detritus from all this collective munching includes thousands of used wooden chopsticks destined for tomorrow's garbage pickup.

47. But I'm the purist type who hates even the thought of leaving any detritus around and insists upon a clean install to a pure, unsullied partition.

48. Fry of this species exclusively feed on the Animalcules and water fleas; while fingerlings consume in the order of preference the vegetable debris, unicellular algae, detritus and mud [38]

49. Detritus also cycles Autochthonously as egested matter and unconsumed kill, i.e., [Mathematical Expression Omitted], and as corpses that originate from the non-predatory death of consumers, [Sigma] [d.sub.i] [X.sub.i]

50. Welcome to Newport (Casnewydd) Sitting at the muddy mouth of the River Usk and flanked by the detritus of heavy industry, Newport is never going to win any awards for beauty.

51. Copepods eat detritus and algae as well as a natural food source for mandarin gobies scooter blennies as well seahorses, however many fish, corals and other invertebrates enjoy eating Copepods.

52. Bryozoans use a food-gathering structure (lophophore) bearing the crown of ciliated tentacles to filter the water and trap algae, small particles of detritus, diatoms and other microscopic organisms

53. Composting is a process that works to speed up the natural decay of organic material by providing the ideal conditions for detritus-eating organisms to thrive, according to the United States

54. An unconformity separates this assemblage from a thick succession of sandstone deposited as an aeolian dune field, with detritus probably coming from as far as the New Quebec Orogen to Baltica region.

55. Leniusculus and Allocthonous (terrestrial detritus) and benthic autochthonous (periphyton and macrophyte) resources from the littoral zone of 14 lakes in Washington State, USA and Hokkaido, Japan during the summers of 2008 and 2009

56. These FRESH WATER Amphipods (hyallela azteca) are easy to culture and are an excellent food for many types of fish. They like to hide in vegetation and muck, and feed on detritus

57. The Early Cretaceous paleogeography of the Maritime Provinces is interpreted to have consisted of fault-bound horsts shedding coarse detritus surrounded by an interconnected series of basins that accumulated fluvial sands and gravels and overbank muds with well-developed paleosols.

58. It has been shown by Chevandrier, that an acre of land under beech wood Accumulates annually about 1650 lb. ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY THOMAS ANDERSON If by chance the detritus Accumulates rapidly, the slope is steepened and the work of the torrent made more efficient

59. Alterniflora exhibited high productivity and a well-developed underground root system (Li et al., 2009), which could inhibit the import and availability of Allothogenic food sources by reducing tidal flow and producing more detritus (Neira, Grosholz, Levin, & Blake, 2006; Neira, Levin, & Grosholz, 2005; Neira, Levin

60. Alluviation (s) (noun), Alluviations (pl) The depositions or formations of sediments or materials that have been carried and left on land areas by running water; such as rivers or streams: Alluviations are the results of sand, silt, mud, or other detritus (loose materials) left by flowing water in river beds, flood plains, lakes, etc.