Sentence examples for dried silt from inspiring English sources

Nicole McCormick, 35, a medical administrator who rode out the storm in an upper-floor apartment, then moved in with a friend in Jamaica, Queens, stood in the inch-deep dried silt on the playground blacktop — residue from seawater that had cascaded head-high — and described her pride at voting.

"This is how we can get the word out, that despite the devastation, we can still make an effort to have our voice heard," she said, standing with other voters in the inch-deep dried silt on the blacktop, residue from seawater that flooded head-high through this area a week ago, leaving scores of houses flooded and cars ruined, and causing fires that destroyed more than 120 houses.

For this paper the samples were characterized by particle size (percent sand, silt, and clay), dry silt content (used in EPA-recommended fugitive dust emission factors), carbon and nitrogen content, and potential to emit both PM10 and PM2.5.

In the drought years of the nineteen-thirties and again in the fifties his father had put in earthen dams and stock ponds, and in wet years they had held water but were now silted up and dried and stood as unsightly pits filled with weeds.

"Perhaps a river or canyon bottom is dried in the winter, and the fine-grained silt is easily transported by wind".

Later, the water was decanted, and the remaining slurry containing fines portion was air dried for sufficient time to obtain flakes of fines (clay and silt).

Collected samples were oven dried and then sieved through 75 µm sieve to obtain the clean sands and silts.

The soil, which contained in addition to silt, 4.15% organic C, 15.9% clay, 12.1% sand, and 0.39% total N (w/w), was air dried and crushed to pass a 2.0 mm sieve.

The soil in many places has become less naturally productive and rivers are running dry and silting up.

Kezdi [23] reports that cement treatment slightly increases the maximum dry density of sand and highly plastic clays but it decreases the maximum dry density of silt [24].

The study treats the drying of various formulations of the natural silt with and without reinforcement.