Sentence examples for are silt from inspiring English sources

The materials here are silt to fine grained sand that is subangular to subrounded and very well rounded.

On the Chukchi Peninsula, Dallia are most abundant in shallow thermokarst lakes that are silt bottomed and overgrown with plants [ 48].

I see rivers that are silted and I know the waters should be clear.

Water is contaminated, irrigation channels are silted up, well water polluted and undrinkable.

Because of the Farakka dam fresh water is not reaching there and the rivers are silting up rapidly.

The chambers of his walk-through cranium, constructed from packing tape and cardboard, are silted with used Coke cans and outsize philosophy texts.

Eventually, oxbow lakes are silted up to form marshes and finally meander scars, marked by different vegetation or the absence of cultivation.

The soils are silting up river systems – if you look at the huge brown stain in the ocean where the Amazon deposits soil, you realise how much we are accelerating that process.

Surface sediments and soils in Polder 32 are silt-dominated and clay-rich, forming an impermeable mud cap [12, 13].

The major components of this unit are silt- to clay-sized fine ash (Fig. 8), and the grain size is finer than that of Units A and B. Ash accretion textures can occasionally be recognized as observed in Unit B. Unit C can be found in various locations throughout the summit area; the layer thickness varies from a few to 10 cm (Fig. 7).

But, according to Mr Marshall, despite being "in water" the existing stretches are silted up and "not navigable".