Sentences with word «silt»

Another port on the GBR coast will result in silting of the reef.

Unfortunately, most of that habitat type was removed when the shipping channels were created or has filled with silt from agriculture and construction in the watershed.

The whole Ambergris island probably resulted from the accumulation of coral fragments along with silt from the Rio Hondo.

All were remarkably well preserved below layers of silt deposited by a river that once ran through the area.

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Rudick writes: «The strata of distant land in [Wilson's] paintings lie like silt at the bottom of a river and remind me of the colored stripes of earth in Malevich's Red Cavalry.

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Giant mushrooms dominate the landscape and silt striders make their return as insect - enabled transportation.

However, in the first stream they visited, they found layer upon layer of fine silt which suggested that the sediment was in fact quite old.

View the Mitchell River silt jetties which stretch 10 kms into Lake King from the mouth of the Mitchell River.

Every product contains precious sea silt extract.

There are no rivers streaming silt into the waters of Vieques, so crystal clear waters dominate through the year.

Like silt deposited on the cogs of a finely tuned machine after the seawater of a tsunami recedes, our experiences, and those of our forebears, are never gone, even if they have been forgotten.

Dive sites close to the mainland are effected by silt from the rivers and are generally of poor quality.

Because of fears that San Diego Bay might silt up, the river was diverted to its present course north of Point Loma by a levee built in 1877.

This typically includes the installation of silt fencing, haybale protection around groundwater extraction wells, and catch basin inlet filters to catch and contain storm runoff when it rains.

A recent article in The New Nation — «Can Bangladesh Trap Silt?»

Drive onto Lake King along the Mitchell River silt jetties, the second longest in the world, where you will often see native animals and birds.

Vinyl fencing prevents silt from seeping out from the muck containment area on the island.

Rising in the highlands of Armenia and fed by mountain snows, they flow southeasterly to meet at a point seventy miles from the Persian Gulf, to which they carry much silt.

What's more, because we are enjoying perfect weather conditions we make a flight detour to ensure passengers on both sides of the plane are able to see all the sights: the vastness of the 29 km Tasman Glacier, the peaks of Aoraki Mount Cook, the braided channels of mountain streams, with their gravel bars and boulder outcrops rapidly becoming silted glacial rivers and ultimately turquoise blue lakes that belie their ice cold temperatures.

This lake is a beautiful turquoise colour caused by the fine glacial silt suspended in the water.

Earth had mud before it had plants: Weathering of rocks can create silt and clay, and microbes and fungi also erode rock material into ever tinier bits.

A Republican lawmaker on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee said Thursday that rocks from the White Cliffs of Dover and the California coastline, as well as silt from rivers tumbling into the ocean, are contributing to high sea levels globally.

The clinching evidence for this was that cracks in Lajia created by the quake were filled with flood - related sediment, not the fine silt sediment deposited by annual rainwater runoff at the same site each year, showing that the flood sediment got there first, and so must have arrived within a year of the quake.

The floor is covered with a «very fine silt which billows into great clouds with the slightest movement from a passing diver.

The demitasse cups of coffee, thick with the sliding brown silt of sugar, somehow knocked one even faster into a somnolent state.

Land at the middle level acts like the floodplains that often build up from silt when streams overflow their banks.

SAND HOGS — «For the Pennsylvania Railroad Terminal in New York, the tunnels were bored for the most part by means of huge shields which burrowed their way through silt and sand seventy feet below the surface of the Hudson River.

They do this by a process called DNA methylation, which, very basically, is a way to silt over parts of the human genome to keep it from being read.

Kawasaki doesn't release power figures for the mid-mounted, 783 - cc V - twin, but after easily running up to 50 mph on soft silt, our derriere - dyno estimates an output around the high 80 mark.

CORN ISLAND (George Ovashvili, Georgia, 2014; 100 minutes) An old man stakes his claim on a transient island of silt washed down a river that marks the border between Georgia and Kazakhstan.

She moves a short way upstream and does it all over again, scouring algae off rock, washing silt out of the eddies, aerating gravel.

It would be anchored on Chongming Island, China, one of the largest alluvial islands in the world, which has been steadily expanding because of heavy silt runoff at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Complex patterns can be seen in the shallow waters along its coastline, where silt carried by the Geba and other rivers washes out into the Atlantic Ocean.

The wall on the other side of the channel has become so silted - up that it can no longer be used, and it is here that exiled citizens from Vekta City have retreated, desperate to escape the oppression of New Helghan rule.

A GOP lawmaker said this week that the rise in sea levels around the globe was not caused by climate change — but by rocks tumbling into the world's oceans and silt flowing from rivers to the sea.

LAKEWOOD — A sand filter in a pond in Lippold Park is partially working but needs improvements so more silt can be removed before the water enters Crystal Lake, members of an environmental panel said Monday night.

The Army Corps of Engineers dredges silt and sand from rivers and ports to keep them navigable.

«Normally at the ocean floor, at 700 meters depth, what you're accumulating is very fine material» — dust or silt small enough that it could be carried by currents or winds far from land without settling out.

Coal silt from the Lehigh Gorge site fills a split - spoon, a tool used to remove cross-sections of soil.

They can then use radiocarbon dating to determine when more or less silt was deposited.

Windblown silt plugged the entrance to this storage chamber 38 meters underground.