Silt example sentences

In Tibet the river carries a smaller volume of water and less silt as it is a cold and a dry area.Here the river carries a large volume of water and considerable amount of silt.Whenever harmful substances such as sewage, toxic chemicals, silt, etc.They perform intensive erosional activity in their upper courses and carry huge loads of silt and sand.The material carried by the glacier such as rocks big and small, sand and silt gets deposited.When they died, their bodies sank to the sea bed and were covered by silt.They are loamy and silty in valley sides and coarse grained in the upper slopes.Meanwhile, the silt was slowly compressed into rock.The alluvial soil consists of various proportions of sand, silt and clay.The rivers in their lower course split into numerous channels due to the deposition of silt.Sedimentation also meant that the flood plains were deprived of silt, a natural fertiliser, further adding on to the problem of land degradation.Unlike other north Indian rivers the Brahmaputra is marked by huge deposits of silt on its bed causing the river bed to rise.