Sentence examples for volume of silt from inspiring English sources

Its waters appear muddy owing to the volume of silt carried by the river.

The Qin River's lower course has a very low gradient, so that the large volume of silt carried down from the plateau by the current has caused extensive flooding since ancient times.

Results show that a combination of projects involving removal or mitigation of stressors potentially eroded >7 × 106 m3 of silt over the study area whereas both barrages caused silt accretion, one potentially doubling the volume of silt accumulated since the early 1800s.

The soil mix consisted of a 2 1 1 volume of silt loam (Vienna fine-loamy mixed Udic Haploboroll), sand, and peat, respectively, hereafter described as soil.

The winds and rivers carried immense volumes of silt and dust that settled in the lowlands of Alaska and Siberia.

The waterpower potential of northern China is extremely limited because the flow of the Huang He and other northern rivers is erratic and because these rivers carry heavy volumes of silt.

After a major flood, large volumes of silt may accumulate in slow-flowing areas and the river may need to be dredged again.

The density of vegetation and the volume proportion of silt allow well-controllable channel dimensions whereas the polymer proved difficult to control.

This has been an urgent issue for engineers as large volumes of silts are being generated each year and need to be properly disposed.

It has little effect in most rocks, but in fine-grained, unconsolidated sediments, particularly silts, lenses of ice, called ground ice, grow by migration of moisture, and in extreme cases half the volume of Arctic silts may be ice.

The river carries a heavy load of silt, and the volume of water varies greatly from season to season; the maximum level is attained during the summer.