Before it was buried under silt, dust and its own collapsing buildings, it was a prosperous hard-working town, the kind where the mule drivers' union would have its own bathhouse (as it apparently did) with steam rooms, a pool and a gym.
It's not a big one, maybe 200 metres across, but in between I can see three stuck trucks, two fountaining silt dust into the air, the other motionless bar some frantic shovelling.
I haven't been able to hear a word Justin said, I can still taste silt dust and it's been the toughest, most ferocious 88 miles of my driving life.
The winds and rivers carried immense volumes of silt and dust that settled in the lowlands of Alaska and Siberia.
You know: total war, radiation, mass famine, eco-horror, and Earth reduced to rat-gray silt and dust.
In the first 100 martian days after landing, Curiosity investigated a loose rock, named Jake_M, sitting on the plains of Gale crater, and an accumulation of windblown sand, silt, and dust known as Rocknest.
Limestone, when pulverized, forms silt-sized dusts.
The presented results showed that treatment combination of silt, coconut coir dust, and top soil (SCT) produced maximum plant height while mixture of silt, Lahore compost and top soil (SLT) gave maximum number of leaves per plant and maximum flower stalk thickness.
First, the raw cacao beans are sifted and sorted by hand, to remove dust, silt, bean fragments, shell pieces, damaged beans, beans that are stuck together, germinated beans that didn't ferment soon enough after harvest, flat beans, beans that are too small, and leaves and twigs.
Now Usnavy looks up at the stained glass and dreams of Africa, never mind that the lamp is straining at its chains, plaster dust silting into the apartment as his ceiling and his conscience threaten to collapse.
He glides along the tiles, which are covered by a silt layer of plaster dust from one of his sculptures in progress.
