silt|silts in English

noun

[sɪlt]

fine particles of sand and other earthy matter which are carried and deposited by wate

Use "silt|silts" in a sentence

1. Variable; includes marine clays and silts, alluvial and glacial gravels, sands and silts, and active eolian deposits.

2. Reworked stratified sands and silts, the products of several Alluviations

3. 1 The water contains fine silt.

4. Aeolian deposits—silt and clay size

5. Inorganic silts and very fine sands, rock flour, silty of Clayey fine sands or Clayey

6. The land is old red sandstone with a very high content of fine silts.

7. The enclosing sediments are rhythmic couplets of alternating fine sand and silt layers overlain by silty clay and fine–medium silt layers.

8. The pores between silt particles are so small and retentive of water that tightly packed silt can not be emptied by drainage.

9. 7 The formulae of the silt carrying capacity for the tidal flow might be obtained by statistical method using measured silt concentration directly.

10. The lake was almost solid with silt and vegetation.

11. 7 The pores between silt particles are so small and retentive of water that tightly packed silt can not be emptied by drainage.

12. Loam is a mixture of sand, silt, and clay.

13. no aroma or taste of silt, alluvium or grass,

14. 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.

15. 2 The lake was almost solid with silt and vegetation.

16. The silt collects in the Backward part of the tank

17. Argillaceous sandstones contain a significant level of clay or silt

18. 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

19. Key words: tunnel valley, glacial silt, earth dam, settlement, airphoto interpretation.

20. 3 Silt and gravelly deposits had been left by the tide.

21. A clod of silt can easily be crumbled in the fingers.

22. This was Goat Island, created of silts and clays that had originally lain on the bottom of the vanished Lake Tonawanda.

23. The foundation of the dyke consists of a layer of interbedded silts and clay overlying a basal sand stratum.

24. Dredge No. 4 buried in silt on Bonanza Creek; stacker in foreground

25. 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