Sentence examples for silt layer from inspiring English sources

The gullies carry a fine-grained load, which is locally derived from the silt layer beneath the surface gravel cap.

The company has spent tens of millions of dollars on scientific tests showing that the PCB's are safely entombed beneath the silt layer.

The company's position has been that the old PCB's are now buried -- safely insulated from the water by a deep silt layer.

He glides along the tiles, which are covered by a silt layer of plaster dust from one of his sculptures in progress.

Later studies in the 1990's indicated that PCB's were not dropping fast enough, and were perhaps escaping from the silt layer.

On such land, building is possible only on "rafts," or after concrete piles, sometimes as long as 65 feet (20 metres), have been driven into the silt layer.

Between the beach and the water-line, darker sand and silt layers are visible, which are exposed in this image taken during low tide.

Increase in the number of silt layers in the bank profile increased the time to collapse significantly.

These analyses suggest that MTBE diffused from the thin anaerobic aquifer into the adjacent anaerobic silts and transformed to TBA in both aquifer and silt layers.

All sectioned stalagmites growing < 1 m above the overflow channels in these three caves feature sand and silt layers deposited during flood events.

It is found that the studied area can liquefy since there are saturated loose sandy silt layers at depth ranges from 7 to 14 m.