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1. The waterway is silted up.

2. 12 The harbour has silted up.

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

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

5. 1 The water contains fine silt.

6. Aeolian deposits—silt and clay size

7. On Romney Marsh, silting of river mouths was worsened by the problem of peat shrinkage.

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

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

10. As a result , reservoirs lose their storage capacity ( already many of our reservoirs are silted heavily ) .

11. Any alteration of water clarity or silting over rock and riffles can be expected to be detrimental.

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

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

14. 7 The formulae of the silt carrying capacity for the tidal flow might be obtained by statistical method using measured silt concentration directly.

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

16. 7 The pores between silt particles are so small and retentive of water that tightly packed silt can not be emptied by drainage.

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

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

19. 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.

20. The result obtained is that the recharge of silting and blocking rioter to groundwater is mainly in spating season.

21. 2 The lake was almost solid with silt and vegetation.

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

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

24. 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

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

26. 3 Silt and gravelly deposits had been left by the tide.

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

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

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

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

31. 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

32. Alluvium and low terrace deposits along streams, sand, silt, clay, and gravel

33. Gravel and silt, washed down the mountainside, are clogging his irrigation ditch.

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

35. Twice daily the tide brings sand, clay and silt into the Wadden Sea.

36. 12 Alternatively dirt and silt could find their way back into the pond.

37. 4 During the annual floods the river deposits its silt on the fields.

38. 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.

39. The soil consists of several metres of alluvium or silt deposited by the Seine.

40. 29 Loam is a soil with roughly equal proportions of clay, sand and silt.

41. 27 Nearer the sea and along the rivers the soils were all fine silt.

42. 14 Loam is a soil with roughly equal proportions of clay, sand and silt.

43. The soil should be of loam, a mixture of sand, silt, clay and organic material.

44. 5 The plants provide shelter for animals, trap silt and draw nutrients from the water.

45. Trees, grasses, plastic offal and silt floating and suspending in water belong to physical pollutants.

46. Synonyms for Alluviums include alluvion, sludge, ooze, mires, muck, mud, silt, slime, sediment and slush

47. Alluvium definition is - clay, silt, sand, gravel, or similar detrital material deposited by running water.

48. A loose granular material that consists of particles smaller than gravel but coarser than silt.

49. Channel deposits, consisting of sand, silt and clay, fill the valleys cut by a river system.

50. Key words : frost heave, ice lenses, frozen soil, vertical silt–sand interface, chilled pipeline, differential heave.

51. Most of the dust carried by dust storms is in the form of silt-size particles.

52. The contents of the buckets run down chutes into hopper boats which take the silt away.

53. In muddy water, for example, the Colloidal particles are tiny grains of sand, silt, and clay.

54. Argillite is primarily composed of clay or silt particles, but may contain other constituents as well.

55. The accumulation factors of95Zr +95Nb and106Ru in the surface silt layer are approximately 1.5×104. 6.

56. 20 The hook type do not work in the soft silt of most coarse fish waters.

57. 15 Here they become wider and slower and often carry considerable quantities of sand and silt.

58. A series of graded silt-mud turbidites from Hole 175, showing varying amounts of Bioturbation were

59. Sometimes called “Haida Slate” or “Black Slate”, Argillite is a type of hard, fine black silt

60. The transition to organic-rich silt and peat and an aerophile diatom assemblage marks channel abandonment.

61. 24 Mudstone is a general term for rocks composed of more than 50 % clay and silt.

62. Silt, washed from deep forestry ploughing, smothers plants, endangering insect life and therefore fish survival also.

63. Astrakhan is an important industrial town with an extensive fishing and caviar business and a port—which, however, is subject to silting, as is the Volga canal to the Caspian

64. Hardstem Bulrush grows in firm, sandy soil while softstem requires thick, soft silt in which to live

65. In the silt I join the first footprints on new land, of two deer and an otter.

66. Soon, however, silt began to block the entrance to the Camber, threatening its use as an anchorage.

67. 8 Silt, washed from deep forestry ploughing, smothers plants, endangering insect life and therefore fish survival also.

68. Aggregation – Arrangement of primary soil particles (sand, silt, clay) around soil organic matter and through particle associations

69. 29 The contents of the buckets run down chutes into hopper boats which take the silt away.

70. 28 The waters are being polluted by mercury, oil and silt as a result of the mining.

71. 22 The rivers are infinitely renewable, at least until the reservoirs silt up or the climate changes.

72. 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.

73. Electrical conductivity, percentage silt, and soil phosphorus were found to be correlated with well-developed Cryptogamic crusts

74. It is therefore of alluvial, sandy and clayey silt origin, fresh, deep and fertile with good water retention.

75. 23 Would it be possible, for example, to have a dredger clear all the silt, rubbish and vegetation?

76. Argillite is a sedimentary rock composed of fine silt and sand-sized particles mixed with finer volcanic ash

77. 10 In the silt I join the first footprints on new land, of two deer and an otter.

78. 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.

79. It is therefore of alluvial, sandy and clayey silt origin, fresh, deep and fertile with good water retention

80. Two slope failures occurred in extrasensitive clay deposits containing no visible lens or layer of silt or sand.