silt

How To Use silt In A Sentence

• Through the logging practice streams silted up, and the waters were warmed to a level unsuitable for the survival of fry.
• Season of the Inundation: Sweet, black silt mingled with holy myrrh, melilot, hyssop, spikenard, balsam, cedar, and a hint of melting snow from the Abyssinian hills. Thor's Day
• This can be very important since some fish will inhabit silty area in preference to hard bottoms.
• The Gonubie River does not have a typically big flushing flow while silting in Transkei rivers is a result of ‘poor land use practice’.
• The tuffs are associated with subordinate sandstones and siltstones and minor lava.
• The mountainous Mid-Coastal Sedimentary ecoregion lies outside of the coastal fog zone and is typically underlain by massive beds of sandstone and siltstone in contrast to the volcanics of Ecoregion 1d. Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA)
• The silt is the next heaviest particle, and should settle during the next four hours.
• Yesterday at low tide, silt shut the slough like trap, and mud stranded boats on docks perched high above water.
• Bogs and glacial recessional lake deposits frequently contain compressible deposits of peat and organic-rich silt.
• Solemn straight hair, eyes like silty ocean water. The Bird House