Sentence examples for silt deposits from inspiring English sources

Silt deposits to the south, such as Sunk Island, have been reclaimed as farmland.

Silt deposits will eventually fill the lake to form a marsh or meander scar.

"The entire economy is based on flooding"—not just agriculture, which depends on the billions of tonnes of fertile silt deposits it leaves behind, but fishing and communications.

Floodwaters, with their nutrient-rich silt deposits, are critical to the survival of life on the delta and of fish stocks, said Gulab Shah, a social worker and district president of the Fisherfolk Forum in Thatta.

Many of the chars in Assam are islands in the Brahmaputra River and can disappear over time due to floods, just as regularly as new char islands form from silt deposits.

Outside the areas of Nile silt deposits, the nature of such cultivable soil as exists depends upon the availability of the water supply and the type of rock in the area.

The area holds an ancient silt deposit that makes the soil quite fertile.

The coast lies far to the south; the result of centuries of silt deposited by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Pisa lay by the sea until the 15th century, by which time accumulated silt deposited by the Arno River had completely cut the city off from the receding shoreline.

Enshar and Ninshar engender the concrete circle of the horizon, in the persons of Anshar and Kishar, probably conceived as silt deposited along the edge of the universe.

The most valuable soils of British Columbia are the alluvial soils that developed on sand and silt deposited by streams and rivers.