silt in English
the river's mouth had silted up
Use "silt" in a sentence
1. 1 The water contains fine silt.
2. Aeolian deposits—silt and clay size
3. The enclosing sediments are rhythmic couplets of alternating fine sand and silt layers overlain by silty clay and fine–medium silt layers.
4. The pores between silt particles are so small and retentive of water that tightly packed silt can not be emptied by drainage.
5. 7 The formulae of the silt carrying capacity for the tidal flow might be obtained by statistical method using measured silt concentration directly.
6. The lake was almost solid with silt and vegetation.
7. 7 The pores between silt particles are so small and retentive of water that tightly packed silt can not be emptied by drainage.
8. Loam is a mixture of sand, silt, and clay.
9. no aroma or taste of silt, alluvium or grass,
10. The substrate is generally silt and/or sand accumulated in depressions and openings between rocks, or open silt, sand and gravel, sometimes sorted by frost.
11. 2 The lake was almost solid with silt and vegetation.
12. The silt collects in the Backward part of the tank
13. Argillaceous sandstones contain a significant level of clay or silt
14. GC - Clayey gravel sand SW - Well graded sand SP - Poorly graded sand SM - Silty sand SC - Clayey sand CL - Lean clay ML - Silt OL - Organic clay (on or above A-line - Organic silt (below A-line) CH - Fat clay MH - Elastic silt OH - Organic clay (on or above A-line) - Organic silt (below A-line) Basic group name—hatched area on Plasticity Chart
15. Key words: tunnel valley, glacial silt, earth dam, settlement, airphoto interpretation.
16. 3 Silt and gravelly deposits had been left by the tide.
17. A clod of silt can easily be crumbled in the fingers.
18. Dredge No. 4 buried in silt on Bonanza Creek; stacker in foreground
19. Sand, silty sand, Clayey sand, silty gravel and Clayey gravel (SW, SP, SM, SC, GM and GC) 2,000 Clay, sandy clay, silty clay, Clayey silt, silt and sandy silt (CI, ML, MH, and CH) 1,500b For S1: 1 pound per square foot = 0.0479 kN/m2 a
20. Alluvium and low terrace deposits along streams, sand, silt, clay, and gravel
21. Gravel and silt, washed down the mountainside, are clogging his irrigation ditch.
22. Twice daily the tide brings sand, clay and silt into the Wadden Sea.
23. 12 Alternatively dirt and silt could find their way back into the pond.
24. 4 During the annual floods the river deposits its silt on the fields.
25. Assemblages from hy drologically variable sites had generalized feeding strategies, were associated with silt and general substrata, were characterized by slow-velocity species with headwater affinities, and were tolerant to silt.
26. The soil consists of several metres of alluvium or silt deposited by the Seine.
27. 29 Loam is a soil with roughly equal proportions of clay, sand and silt.
28. 27 Nearer the sea and along the rivers the soils were all fine silt.
29. 14 Loam is a soil with roughly equal proportions of clay, sand and silt.
30. The soil should be of loam, a mixture of sand, silt, clay and organic material.
31. 5 The plants provide shelter for animals, trap silt and draw nutrients from the water.
32. Trees, grasses, plastic offal and silt floating and suspending in water belong to physical pollutants.
33. Synonyms for Alluviums include alluvion, sludge, ooze, mires, muck, mud, silt, slime, sediment and slush
34. Alluvium definition is - clay, silt, sand, gravel, or similar detrital material deposited by running water.
35. A loose granular material that consists of particles smaller than gravel but coarser than silt.
36. Channel deposits, consisting of sand, silt and clay, fill the valleys cut by a river system.
37. Key words : frost heave, ice lenses, frozen soil, vertical silt–sand interface, chilled pipeline, differential heave.
38. Most of the dust carried by dust storms is in the form of silt-size particles.
39. The contents of the buckets run down chutes into hopper boats which take the silt away.
40. In muddy water, for example, the Colloidal particles are tiny grains of sand, silt, and clay.
41. Argillite is primarily composed of clay or silt particles, but may contain other constituents as well.
42. The accumulation factors of95Zr +95Nb and106Ru in the surface silt layer are approximately 1.5×104. 6.
43. 20 The hook type do not work in the soft silt of most coarse fish waters.
44. 15 Here they become wider and slower and often carry considerable quantities of sand and silt.
45. A series of graded silt-mud turbidites from Hole 175, showing varying amounts of Bioturbation were
46. Sometimes called “Haida Slate” or “Black Slate”, Argillite is a type of hard, fine black silt
47. The transition to organic-rich silt and peat and an aerophile diatom assemblage marks channel abandonment.
48. 24 Mudstone is a general term for rocks composed of more than 50 % clay and silt.
49. Silt, washed from deep forestry ploughing, smothers plants, endangering insect life and therefore fish survival also.
50. Hardstem Bulrush grows in firm, sandy soil while softstem requires thick, soft silt in which to live