Sentence examples for silt covered from inspiring English sources

Everywhere a gray silt covered trees and shrubs and walls, marking the water's historic height.

Rippled silt covered the wooden floor, the air thick with the smell of the river that carried it in.

Further layers of soft silt covered the site during the 18th and 19th centuries, but frequent changes in the tidal patterns and currents in the Solent occasionally exposed some of the timbers, leading to its accidental rediscovery in 1836 and aided in locating the wreck in 1971.

A fine yellow silt covers the landscape, the signature feature of the Loess Plateau.

A layer of thick red silt covers much of the county as the clean-up begins.

The graded and laminated silt containing small organic fragments, which cannot be seen in normal marsh deposits represented by black-colored, rootled sandy silt or silt, covers the deformed interval (Fig. 8a, c).

At elevations above 300 feet in the Tryon Creek watershed, wind-blown silt covers the lava, while at lower elevations sand and gravel cover the bedrock.

I swim along the left wall, careful not to kick too wide; half a meter below me a thick sheet of silt covers the floor and setting it into motion would turn the little visibility I have to zero.

The southern corvette lies on her starboard side covered in silt.

In fact, work crews carted in sand, mud and silt to cover marsh and dunes for a dry, even surface for racing.

The sand matched the sand found on the present-day beaches of Abukir and not the silt that subsequently covered the sea bottom.