Years of erosion had left a mound of silt. From LearnThat.org.
So I can actually bury huges parts of Egypt in silt if I need to. From Wordnik.com. [Day in the Life of an Idiot] Reference
The silt from the estuary had suddenly given way to the deep blue of the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Prose] Reference
Water with lots of mineral deposits and silt is not good for you cooling system. From Wordnik.com. [Car care in Mexico] Reference
Over the centuries it has been filled in by silt from the rivers of the western plains. From Wordnik.com. [How Taiwan Became Chinese] Reference
You have loam and we have river bed sand and decomposed granite and perhaps silt from the river. From Wordnik.com. [bapteme - French Word-A-Day] Reference
But I do want to enter a modest plea for the strange and wonderful, the subversive gold dust you find in silt, online or off. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
They also brought silt, which is very good for crops. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to U.S. sees food security as next big Africa push] Reference
Another category is naturalization where they buried in silt. From Wordnik.com. [Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America – the story behind the book « Reading Copy] Reference
"The body may have sunk or been buried under silt, which is why nothing was found during the air search on Monday.". From Wordnik.com. Reference
It is sometimes a conventional practice to build a small basin, called a silt trap, at the entrance to a closed section. From Wordnik.com. [2. Drainage options] Reference
The town also will use what are called silt curtains, which will reduce the amount of sediment stirred up by the dredging. From Wordnik.com. [Press of Atlantic City: Editorials] Reference
The new lock and flood control structures mean that the area where they sift the silt will be a canal probably by the begnning of 2008. From Wordnik.com. [On the river bed] Reference
Couldn’t you take the dirt/earth/silt from the bottom of the lake and use it to fill in and raise up the low lying areas of the city?. From Wordnik.com. [Rebuilding New Orleans? « BuzzMachine] Reference
It is called silt, but really there are a number of silts, some almost like clay and some almost like sand; they shade one into the other. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons on Soil] Reference
Sedimentation tanks separate finer solids, such as silt, clay and part of the suspended solids. From Wordnik.com. [1. Historical development and experience with water treatment] Reference
It reminds us of a spicy "silt" (pickled herring) that we came to enjoy when we were in Sweden many years ago. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
In anthracite mining, powdered coal or "silt" has accumulated in stockpiles and in stream channels to many tens of millions of tons. From Wordnik.com. [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference
Dunkirk silt loam, Ontario fine sand loam, and Ontario loam. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912] Reference
Few soils are formed only of coarse sand, most are mixtures of sand, silt and clay. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
Shafts with air-locks and pipes for admitting water and ejecting silt are provided. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference
Dunkirk loam, Dunkirk sandy loam, Dunkirk silt loam, Clyde sandy loam and clay loam. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference
Waterways: NA km; large sections of Sava blocked by downed bridges, silt, and debris. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
McLaren doesn't buy it -- he notes that the last thing pilots want to do is stir up silt. From Wordnik.com. [Out Of The Blue] Reference
In doing so, the Corps has deprived the wetlands of a natural buildup through regenerative silt. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Flattau: Gulf Restoration] Reference
Settling on her windowsills, sprinkling her potted plants, there were anthills of silt on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [To-die-for] Reference
Of her phone buried in silt or stuck in the wreckage or having floated into someone else's cold pale hand. From Wordnik.com. [quarterlife] Reference
Washing gems in nearby rivers or streams can pollute those waterways with silt and sediment, altering aquatic habitats. From Wordnik.com. [Green Lantern: Environmentally friendly jewelry includes synthetic gemstones] Reference
Preservationists blame the increase in rusticles on tourism, which they claim has stirred up the silt surrounding the wreck. From Wordnik.com. [Out Of The Blue] Reference
REEVES: The islands of the Sunderbans have been shrinking and shifting for centuries, partly because of silt and subsidence. From Wordnik.com. [The Sacred Island That's Shrinking Away] Reference
While crossing the forty miles of desert, the sun-baked silt, at the beginning, and later the deep, dry sand, made heavy going. From Wordnik.com. [Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method] Reference
Through a magnifying lens, the edges of silt particles appear rounded because weak soil acids have actually dissolved them away. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
At their peak, waters reached the roof level of homes, leaving behind 2 or 3 foot of polluted silt that has to be removed urgently. From Wordnik.com. [Mubashir Ahmed: Pakistan Floods: Pulling People Back From the Brink] Reference
All this silt and detritus have served to fill up the northern part of the gulf, the result of the deposit being an immense land area. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
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