Sentence examples for silt about from inspiring English sources

Along its journey, the river picks up a huge load of silt — about 20 million tonnes each year.

It is a strip of alluvial silt about 80km (50 miles) long and 17km wide that is home to some 650,000 people.

The commissioner, Bradley Campbell, said that 78,000 cubic yards of the silt, about a quarter of the total, tested for PCB's at a rate of 123 parts per billion, or 10 parts above the permissible federal standard.

Dr Leshin's and colleagues' publication concerns a sample analysis done at "Rocknest", a pile of wind-blown sand and silt about 400m from where Curiosity touched down on the floor of Gale Crater in August 2012.

Eocene rocks consist of a succession of marine, limestone and silt of about 80 m thick.

The maximum gravity change that associated with changes in soil moisture of sand and silt is about 12 μGal of amplitude (Hunt, 2000).

However, if you are particularly worried about silt or other solid matter getting into the drain, consider wrapping the piping in a drain sleeve, which allows water in but filters out larger particles.

As it happened, it was a moment when there was talk of reopening the city to the modern world after centuries of decline brought about by the silting-up of its old sea-canal (the new port of Zeebrugge would be the result).

Drainage is not about diggers and silt - what we have to think about is the whole river starting with the catchment right the way down to the sea".

The particle size distribution shows that the soil sample contains about 18% sand while the silt and clay content constitute about 80%. Figure 6 provides information on Atterberg limits of the studied soil treated with the two types of lime and each showed distinct response in modifying the soil.

After LFC the strength becomes near about same till pure silt sample.