silts

Noun

silt (countable and uncountable, plural silts)

1. (uncountable) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
   • A large tube is then followed over several silt banks to surface after a total dive of 200 m in a large passage containing an active streamway – The San Agustin Way. 5 m before the passage surfaces another line junction is passed, ...2006, Duncan Price, Welsh Sump Index, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 41

   Synonyms:

   slitch

2. (broadly, uncountable) Any material with similar physical characteristics, regardless of its origins or transport.
3. (countable) A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
   • Above the lower headcut, phreatophytic mesquite and little leaf sumac hug the banks, drawing pendulate water from the silts remaining from former marsh deposits and sending long taproots into channel stores.2007, Susan L. Woodward, “Modern Vegetation of the Murray Springs Area and the Upper San Pedro Valley”, in Caleb Vance Haynes, Bruce B. Huckell, editor, Murray Springs, page 58

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