sediment

Laws are like sediment dropping to the bottom of the lake.

A logic system built like sediment builds up on the bottom of a lake.

If sediment buildup involved corruption in the form of lobbyists.

The Altiplano, where this bridge is built, is a plateau between two parts of the Andes infilled with sediment over the past 30m years.

This might prevent you from getting drunk, but the result is going to be some terrible gas. Anyone who homebrews will know this because of those times you've drank beer that still had tons of yeast in suspension or when they accidentally drank the sediment.

Steve Jobs' sedimentary rock analogy might deflate the egos of some developers.

Drilling in these oceanic deposits could destabilize the seabed, causing vast swaths of sediment to slide for miles down the continental slope.

Not all radionuclides disperse the same way, and the ones with the strongest impact on the environment settle out of the atmosphere as sediment.

The movement of so much sediment would certainly trigger massive tsunamis similar to those seen in the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004.

Basically you take proxies for temperature, things like tree rings, coral growth, sediment layer thickness, etc. and you posit a relationship between the proxy measurements and temperature.

Basically, fracking is better in areas with flat-sediment-shale-beds.

The words in the article aren't particularly difficult for a native English speaker certainly not 'sediment' with the exception of 'palimpsest', for which he linked to the Wikipedia entry.

Deep drilling at the site of the Chesapeake Bay impact crater has yielded groundwater with an isotope and chemical composition signature that together with model analysis suggests that it was trapped in the sediments before the impact occurred around 35 million years ago.

Editor's summary from the Nature journal:Geologists and oceanographers generally have to rely on indirect evidence from the analysis of solid materials in deep sediment cores when estimating temperature and salinity levels of the ancient oceans.

Sedimentation is a geological analogy, as rocks are laid down in layers of sediment and he is looking at the interface layers.