Sentence examples for a silt from inspiring English sources

In areas subject to heavy siltation, this dredged area will almost certainly act as a silt trap.

She lives on Holdibari Char, a silt island in middle of the Teesta River in north-western Bangladesh.

It contains also a silt of threads and fragments from the sumps of the world's washing-machines.

With its fresh water gone, its harbor a silt bar, its economy disconnected from inland commerce, New Orleans would turn into New Gomorrah.

He glides along the tiles, which are covered by a silt layer of plaster dust from one of his sculptures in progress.

Thankfully, there is no government agency or private corporation controlling the folk imagination, which has left a silt deposit of legends, stories, beliefs and traditions that goes on being added to and adapted as long as the criss-cross currents of language permit.

Oöids (also known as oölites or oöliths) are sand-size spheres of calcium carbonate mud concentrically laminated about some sort of nucleus grain, perhaps a fossil fragment or a silt-size detrital quartz grain.

Turbidity that is, the cloudiness of the water may be high in lagoons, where shallow water lies over a silt-covered seafloor and where storms and windy periods cause considerable disturbance of the bottom silt.

It was the clash of his honeyed, narcotic husk with JR White's fuzz-and-feedback production that made Girls albums so intoxicating, like some classic Americana folk-pop station playing on a silt-clogged shipwreck's radio.

The sediment profile exhibited a peat layer ~ 2 m in thickness, but the top 50 cm was a silt-dominant mineral layer; the swamp is not currently accumulating peat but did so in the past.

Nevertheless, fine (dust-sized) aeolian sediments were transported down valley in suspension and the source of this material was a silt-dominated meltwater deposit up valley from the monitoring sites.