Sentence examples for a layer of silt from inspiring English sources

There was a layer of silt everywhere that the water had reached.

Water was pumped out, a layer of silt was removed from the bunker and three tons of new sand were added, Shaffer said.

Mr. Crescenzo said that work would soon begin on excavating, disposing of and replacing a layer of silt from the bed of the Peconic River on the laboratory grounds that is contaminated with mercury, PCB's and cesium 137.

On another dive, Clifford disturbed a layer of silt above part of a wreck and was overwhelmed, through his face mask, by the smell of three-century-old pirate pee.

There, just beneath the surface, is a layer of silt and rock that contains the raw ores for gold as well as copper and molybdenum, a costly metal used in high-strength alloys.

The excavation of the spillway, and a flood in 1982 that swept away a layer of silt from the spillway, uncovered an unexpected bonanza of dinosaur tracks, preserved in the Early Cretaceous sandstones of the upper Dakota Group, dated at about 100 million years old.

It took five years to excavate the Neolithic layer, which yielded up graves, huts, cultivated farmland, wooden tools, and some two thousand human footprints, miraculously preserved in a layer of silt-covered mud.

The uppermost layer, a dark brown silt loam that extends to 8 inches underground, lies over a layer of brown silt loam with 10 percent gravel extending 16 inches underground.

The seafloor is covered in a layer of crumbly silt that reaches as deep as two hundred feet.

Continental shelves are usually covered with a layer of sand, silts, and silty muds.

The dispute involves Robert Marx, a Florida author and treasure hunter, who asserts that the Brazilian Navy dumped a thick layer of silt on the remains of a Roman vessel that he discovered inside Rio de Janeiro's bay.