If you miss the old squarish Pathfinder and its ability to crash through silt, rocks and underbrush, you won't.
The county Department of Public Works, which owns the property, is preparing the site to take on 500,000 cubic yards of silt, rocks and vegetation to be scooped out of Santa Anita Reservoir, a key component of the flood-control system for the San Gabriel Mountain foothill communities.
Threatening the village are sinkholes that have formed beside the river, sending landslides of silt, rock and gravel tumbling into spawning areas for sheefish -- an animal that plays a key role in subsistence diets in the region.
Shale gas is a form of natural gas that is stored in organically rich rocks with layers of silt, stone and sandstone.
White residents live in homes that range from sturdy brick façades to ramshackle trailers; black residents tend to live in "the Quarters," where the roads are a lumpy mess of silt and rocks, and some houses have limited access to the sewage system.
In Europe, until recently, governments have shown little interest in shale gas — a natural gas that is stored in organically rich rocks and interbedded with layers of shaley silt stone and sandstone.
The silt and rock seep from the path to the falls and into a stream with trout.
A few dozen paces up the road, at the foot of Sinfa Mountain, a stunning expanse of silt and rock had buried what were once lushly planted fields of squash, corn and papaya trees.
There, just beneath the surface, is a layer of silt and rock that contains the raw ores for gold as well as copper and molybdenum, a costly metal used in high-strength alloys.
Many proposals were studied, but it was finally decided that Île Ste-Hélène, a park in the centre of the St .Lawrence River linked to Montréal by the Jacques Cartier Bridge, would be expanded using silt and rock dredged from the bottom of the river.
Abrasion damage generally results from constant friction and impact of waterborne silt, sand, gravel, rocks, ice, and other debris on concrete surfaces during the operation of a hydraulic structure.
