silt

On Earth, sedimentary rocks made from clay and silt can be especially valuable because they are capable of preserving evidence of ancient microbial life.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

The army has been working for days at other locations to clear away silt and debris to gain access to the tunnels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Workers clearing silt from the flood-struck region say they occasionally come across personal belongings, including gold jewellery.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

In a day of action at Syston Brook, volunteers mucked in to shovel "absolutely solid" silt out of the concrete-bottomed channel, which was then removed by the Environment Agency.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

At first they were just dark brown columns of silt, denser than the water around them.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

Premier Marinas, which owns Brighton Marina, has said dredging, which involves removing natural silts that settle in the marina basin, is needed to ensure safe navigation for boats.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2025

The silts and sand are a "valuable local resource" that contractors and local governments use as fill material in residential and industrial projects, the Army Corps said.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 17, 2019

About 70% of the hull has survived, well-preserved in the Nile silts.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2019

Lake-clogging soil and silts are being loosed from newly deforested lands far upstream, and scientists also warn that climate change is upsetting Himalayan rainfall patterns.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2016

But Hess’s readings showed that the ocean floor offered anything but the gooey smoothness of ancient silts.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

The system is also 70% silted or clogged after over a century of use, Mr Bonoan told news outlet ABS-CBN News.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025

The lagoon didn’t come into existence until about the 16th century, when the rivers feeding into the Atlantic silted, and long sandbanks grew along the coastline.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022

But never have the lakes been silted as they are today,” says Simiyu.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2020

“All this was silted up, and you couldn’t see anywhere,” said Mr. Blonsky, pointing to the refurbished shoreline with the pride of a general contractor.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2017

A dam across the Missouri River in Nebraska silted up so disastrously that a noisome ooze began to pour into the town of Niobrara, eventually forcing its permanent abandonment.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

With two-thirds of the Dutch population living below sea level, droughts can quickly become an acute problem in the Netherlands, leading to rivers silting up and hampering water traffic.

From Reuters ● Aug. 3, 2022

"Slowly but surely, care provision is silting up as a result of either higher levels of demand or higher levels of sickness," he says.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2022

After the fence went up, the society turned to repairing the stream, which was both eroding and silting, to the detriment of the habitat.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2021

Geographers had already noticed that rivers tend to avulse at the foot of mountains, where slopes change dramatically and sediment settles out, silting up the bed.

From Science Magazine ● May 13, 2021

Yes, everything was once water, but the Earth formed out of the oceans by a natural process—similar, he thought, to the silting he had observed at the delta of the Nile.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan