Example sentences for: silt

How can you use “silt” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The lack of soil and rivers on the Yucatecan mainland mean that there is no silt in the sea to reduce underwater visibility, and there is little heavy industry in the area to pollute the ocean, leaving the marine life relatively healthy.

  • For particle size analyses, we removed rocks before sieving [ 38 ] . We determined the percent silt and clay using a hydrometer.

  • Yet nothingabout the frontier's fenced compoundssuggests the traveller en route elsewhereshould stop--even if stepping on the gascan't do much toward cancelling those pictures,the color of pain, a visual undersong ...Once coppergreen expanses of waterslide into view, though, no one could failto sense the difference in beingbelow sea level--air heavyin the ear, oxygen-rich, cool, dry,scented with desert, and holy enough.A hand dipped in water pondersthe viscous feel of minerals in solution,and little tumuli of salts and carbonatesbuild a submarine city sprawlingfor miles under the hammered-metal surface.On a shore hazed with distance, neat rowsof date palms identify themselveswith a green herringbone frond and ripen foodstuffs for, say, the heavenly banquet.Ritual ablution even so has coatedyour skin with a pale silt glove;and sea and desert are one.

  • We found no significant correlation between soil properties and fungal abundance and richness (% organic carbon in soil, % nitrogen in soil, pH of soil, % sand in soil, % silt in soil, or % clay in soil).

  • However, we noted trends for fungal abundance and richness to be positively related to soil organic carbon, nitrogen, clay, and silt and negatively related to soil pH and sand.


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