Silts

The Chihuahuan Desert Grasslands occur in areas of fine-textured soils, such as silts and clays, that have a higher water retention capacity than coarse-textured, rocky soil. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Other soils such as silts and fine sands may be permeable to clean water but become blocked when transmitting effluent containing suspended and dissolved solids. ❋ Unknown (1992)

Martin urges injection of liquefied carbon dioxide -- and the nitrates and sulphates that his technology also captures -- into the "silts" or unconsolidated sediments below the sea floor, at depths of 3. 3km or more. ❋ Unknown (2009)

- cross-flow turbines are relatively insensitive to soft impurities such as silts, clays and floating matter such as grass, leaves, etc. ❋ Unknown (1989)

The snow silts up to the windows in the wild wind: from early fall to late spring, I am unapproachable. ❋ James Greer (2011)

Oh, and by the way.…if the flows during your flood were so powerful that they swept all of the dead and floating vegetation away, they also would have beet far to strong to result in deposition of the clays, silts, and sands that comprise the rocks exposed under the basalt cap of South table Mountain. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His full bottles, still sealed, had gathered fine silts of dust. ❋ Leslie Jamison (2010)

Quaternary-age deltaic sands, silts, and clays underlie much of the Northern Humid Gulf Coastal Prairies on this gently sloping coastal plain. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Delaware River terraces are composed of alluvial sands, alluvial gravels, and lacustrine silts, and are locally mantled by loess; they rise to about 100 feet above the river. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thaw strain data and thaw settlement predictions for Alaskan silts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Cretaceous or Tertiary-age sands, silts, and clays of the region contrast geologically with the older metamorphic and igneous rocks of the Blue Ridge (66) and Piedmont (45). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sediments of silts, clays, and peats contain large amounts of methane, oil, and hydrogen sulfide gas. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Cretaceous or Tertiary-age sands, silts, and clays of the region contrast geologically with the older limestone, chert, and shale found in the Interior Plateau (71). ❋ Unknown (2009)

There is a rough gradient from the higher-lying boulders and gravels to sands and silts and then to the low-lying silt loams and silty clay loams. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Finer silts are washed out into the Bay of Bengal but, where they are protected from wave action, mud flats form in the lee of the dunes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

•Underlain by clays, silts, marls, sands, gravels, and shell beds that are lithologically distinct from the rocks of Ecoregions 58, 64, and 67. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Low, nearly flat coastal plain underlain by unconsolidated Quaternary gravels, sands, and silts. ❋ Unknown (2009)