Sentence examples for layer of silt from inspiring English sources

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.

The natural containment of the chemicals, G.E. officials say, grows more secure with every year and every new layer of silt.

The entire district lies in the floodplain of the Mississippi, and before the levee was constructed it was flooded routinely, collecting a fresh layer of silt each time.

The gravel usually exists as a thin surface cover or armour, which protects an underlying layer of silt that formed under long weathering of the original deposits.

There was a musty metallic smell in the air, left behind by the receding salt water, and the concrete floor was covered with a fine layer of silt.

It took five years to excavate the Neolithic layer, which yielded up graves, huts, cultivated farmland, wooden tools, and some two thousand human footprints, miraculously preserved in a layer of silt-covered mud.

Cornstalks drape power lines, and fields are coated with deep layers of silt.

The chemicals also settled on the river bottom, and into the layers of silt and sediment that accumulate over time.

Jewellery, scraps of textile, her shoes, parts of her clothing, may be preserved in the layers of silt being removed by archaeologists.

The flood cycles passed on the salts that accumulated from evaporation and passed new layers of silt onto the farmlands around the marshes.