Sentence examples for silting of from inspiring English sources

Erosion has stripped away the often thin soil cover and caused serious silting of streams.

With the progressive silting of the river and changing patterns of trade, the town's prosperity declined.

The gradual silting of the River Dee led to its decline, and by the 18th century Liverpool had outstripped it.

Silting of the estuary led to the decline of the port, but the town revived in the railway age.

These include heavy silting of the riverbed, which could eventually cripple the dam, the accumulation of heavy metals and other pollutants in the waters, and now riverbank erosion.

Narbonne, a city of just over 50,000 people, was an important Roman seaport, but centuries of silting of the Aude river have left it snoozing 15km inland.

In parts of China many bridges had to stand in the spongy silt of river valleys.

It contains also a silt of threads and fragments from the sumps of the world's washing-machines.

The silt of the great rivers encroaches constantly on the sea, leaving seaports of former ages dry.

Viktor is a postcard from Rome, a city seen as sexist, venal, and slowly suffocating under the silt of history.

Chandon China's main building, a minimalist box constructed in 2013, had been painted yellow, to match the distinctive yellow silt of the Tengger.