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

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

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

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

7. Located almost always in alluvial plains along major drainages; thaw lakes and channels in marine silts and glacio-lacustrine deposits.

8. The oldest of these sediments are Early Cretaceous alluvial clays, silts, and sands that contain layers of conglomerate, tuff, tuffaceous sandstone, coal, and, at top, rhyolite.

9. Variable, from very flat lake beds, alluvial deposits, and deltaic deposits to low to steep, highly dissected slopes of actively eroding marine silts along rivers and streams.

10. All surfaces are blanketed with aeolian sands and silts deposited around 5500 BP, which profoundly affected the hydrology of the area and water and sediment discharge from the badlands to the Red Deer River.

11. Black OC-rich biosiliceous silty clays and Clayey silts were found throughout the upper early to middle Eocene of the ACEX record, indicating poorly ventilated bottom waters and variable primary production (Moran et al., 2006; Stein et al., 2006).One prerequisite of this extreme paleoenvironmental situation was the paleogeographic boundary setting, i.e., the early Arctic Ocean was isolated