Sentence examples for bed of silt from inspiring English sources

This low-lying bed of silt in Chad, across which powerful jets of wind are wont to blow, constitutes less than 1% of the Sahara's area but is reckoned the world's dustiest place.

The scientists created their jumbo-sized metamaterial in August 2012 by drilling holes in a thick bed of silt and clay near the city of Grenoble in the French Alps.

Freed to flow more swiftly, streams began incising channels through the beds of silt.

The area subsided as the continental crust thinned and the new ocean widened; the carbonate bank soon became covered by thin beds of silt and layers of lime-rich ooze.

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.

She wiped away the layer of silt on the side and peered at the contents.

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

To the authors' knowledge, this is the first time that the influences of non-dimensional Bond number and particle polydispersity on the structural densities of silt beds have been investigated separately.

In systems like for instance the Wadden Sea, where turbidity is sediment-dominated, trapping and stabilization of silt particles by seagrass beds may be very important to sustain adequate growing conditions for seagrass itself.

Unit 1c is dominated by silty clay with beds of sand to silt, underlain by 40-m-thick mass transport deposits (MTDs) (Strasser et al. 2011).

These deposits include alluvium, fans and recent Aji-Chay terraces, which consist of several beds of gravel, sand, silt and clay and become progressively finer and more clayey towards the west of the plain.