Sentence examples for because of silting from inspiring English sources
The ancient port of Miletus, which lay near its mouth, has long been landlocked and abandoned because of silting.
Thaton, the former capital of the Mon kingdom, was once a significant port but has lost its position because of silting.
Although its impounded reservoir originally had a gross capacity of about 5.9 million acre-feet (about 7.3 billion cubic metres), the amount of water impounded gradually diminished because of silting.
Only on the northeast side is the lake bounded by uplands a ridge of hills that also outcrop in the lake as islands, many of which, because of silting, have been joined to the shoreline.
It is composed of, in effect, a long sandbar on which grow clumps of coconut palms; the lagoons are narrower in the western part of the country, where many have become marshes because of silting, and wider in the east, and some are interconnected.
Sandra Postel, author of "Pillar of Sand", a book about irrigation, maintains that, with the single exception of Egypt, no civilisation based on irrigation has survived for long, either because the water has run out, or because of silt, or because of salinisation.Yet it is modern engineering that has made possible irrigation disasters on a massive scale.
The city of Bremerhaven, which covers 31 square miles (80 square km), was founded as an outer port for Bremen because of the silting up of the lower Weser.
The sea's northern and eastern third is less than 600 feet (180 metres) deep, in part because vast quantities of silt have been deposited by the Irrawaddy River at its delta.
The site was chosen because of its silt-free location and its rail and road connections with the interior.
Accelerated pedogenesis, because of aerosolic silts and clays from exposed lake sediments, coupled with decreased density of vegetation reduced infiltration capacity of the hillslope soils in interscrub areas.
Along the lower courses of the Ganges and Brahmaputra and along the Meghna, the land undergoes constant erosion and deposition of silt because of the shifts and changes in these active rivers.
