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Examples of silt
silt
Lithe as a cat, it is made of melted shopping bags and the silt of liquefaction.
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The works incorporated mechanisms to stop silt entering and blocking the drains.
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He invested in new jetties and fortresses but the estuary then began to silt up.
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Darker-colored soil, including some clays and silt, has a lot of organic matter.
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This area gradually filled with silt thus turning it into a seasonal salt marsh.
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Other species can dig into bottom silt or sand until they are completely buried.
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Silt is now being cleared by a Cuban dredge, with a U.S. observer in attendance.
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The mineral components of soil may consist of a mixture of clay, sand, and silt.
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Edmund Jones removed a pinch of brown silt and smeared it across a glass slide.
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- Mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake
- Silt up: become chocked with silt; "The river silted up"
- Silt is granular material of a grain size between sand and clay derived from soil or rock. Silt may occur as a soil or as suspended sediment (also known as suspended load) in a surface water body. It may also exist as soil deposited at the bottom of a water body.
- Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water; Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport; To clog or fill with silt; To become clogged with silt
- (Silts) Muddy material that can be organic or non-organic in composition
- Soil particles having diameters between 0.004 and 0.062 mm (millimeters). Sometimes they may be too small to be trapped by the circulation system. In those cases, a clarifier or an alum product may be needed.
- Sedimentary materials composed of fine or intermediate sized mineral particles.
- As a soil separate, individual mineral particles that range in diameter from the upper limit of clay (0.002 millimeter) to the lower limit of very fine sand (0.05 millimeter). As a soil textural class, soil that is 80 percent or more silt and less than 12 percent clay.
- Substrate particles smaller than sand and larger than clay.
