Examples of 'silty' in a sentence
Meaning of "silty"
silty: An adjective used to describe soil or sediment that is rich in fine mineral particles
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- Having a noticeable amount of silt.
- Resembling or characteristic of silt.
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It mainly consists of silty and sandy sediments.
In the western areal it becomes more silty.
The sea bed here is silty and featureless.
Four types of tests were performed on a silty sand.
It is not found on silty bottoms or areas with vegetation.
The species is found in estuaries and silty bays.
This zone has a silty substrate and is often turbid.
The neotropical loess is made of silt or silty clay.
It is often found on silty sand bottoms in harbours and estuaries.
The low current often results in a silty habitat.
Groundwater occurs in silty to sandy layers of the alluvial sediments.
Dredged material consisting sand and silty sand.
Silty clay and clay.
Lots of different types of plants do well in silty soil.
Other species are found on muddy or silty bottoms of continental slopes.
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Where they are flourish best in a slightly clayey or silty soil.
Below the silty clay is the limestone and shale bedrock.
The deposit in which the bones were found was a silty claystone.
Silty taste is heavy.
The species can not tolerate turbid or silty water.
Of silty water an hour.
This is particularly preferred for silty and cohesive soils.
Silty clay loam.
I can still feel the warmth of the silty stuff.
Heavy concentration of silty clay mixed with gravel and rock.
The depths of the ocean are dark and silty.
Silty material is less likely to compact well and remain firm.
If prefers waters with dense aquatic vegetation and a silty bottom.
These silty layers in the strata are interpreted as ancient lake deposits.
Rectius is a generalist carnivore found in shallow silty and sandy substrates.
It prefers silty environments but these have to have relatively clear water.
It is usually found buried in sand or silty sand in the neritic zone.
The best silty loam is found in prehistoric riverbeds and lake bottoms.
Weathered rocks are very heterogeneous silty clays with flints.
Silty soil typically contains a lot of nutrients because it comes from river sediments.
Thermomechanical couplings in the consolidation of an unsaturated clayey silty sand are investigated.
Thick deposits of silty material resulting from deposition by aeolian processes are often called loess.
The diameter of particles of saline and silty soils also vary.
A few silty quartz grains in some breccia fragments show multiple sets of planar features.
Modern sediment textures range from gravelly sand to silty clays.
The delta sediments are angular fine silty sands constituted mainly of quartz.
The terrain is typically flat and the soil is rich and silty.
This coastal species inhabit mud or silty sand next to sea grasses or corals.
The soil in the field where the tests were made was silty clay.
The species is commonly found in shallow silty reefs and sometimes in estuarine areas.
The characteristic surface concept is experimentally illustrated for the example of a clayey silty sand.
These productive soils consist of silty loessial materials and clay loam glacial till.
Below the subsoil is a layer of mixed gravel and silty clay loam.
The tested soil was a silty clay with intermediate plasticity and medium expansion potential.
These are still waters with a substrate that is silty and heavily vegetated.
