Thick prisms of sediment become thinner as water is squeezed from them, as they compact under their weight, and as the earth's crust below sags under the accumulating load.
(Thick prisms of sediment; become; thinner; T:as water is squeezed from them, as they compact under their weight, and as the earth's crust below sags under the accumulating load) (water; is squeezed; from them) (they; compact; L:under their weight; as the earth's crust below sags under the accumulating load)
Thick prisms of sediment water they
become is squeezed compact
thinner T:as water is squeezed from them, as they compact under their weight, and as the earth's crust below sags under the accumulating load
from them
L:under their weight as the earth's crust below sags under the accumulating load