Once a harbor is formed there need be no trouble regarding the future conservancy work, for there is no silt-carrying water in the vicinity by which the harbor and its approaches may be silted up afterwards.
Since the North River issilted up below Sainam, its channel above that spot is also getting shallower every year.
Thus the relatively shallow Russo-Germanic sea became silted up, while the Mediterranean shore-line advanced southwards.
A number of lakes then existed which have since been silted up.
Thus inland-seas tend to vanish, inlets and estuaries are silted up, and the land in places advances seaward.
Its relative shallowness helps us to understand why the northern depression should have been silted up more completely than the Mediterranean.
As time rolled on, therefore, the northern trough eventually became silted up; but so low even now is the level of that trough that a relatively slight depression would cause the sea to inundate most extensive regions in middle Europe.
Further east, in what are now Saxony and Bohemia, the waters were shallow, and gradually became silted up.
A former arm of the sea, the Rann of Cutch, adjoining the delta on the east has been silted up and is now an immense barren flat of sandy mud two hundred miles in length and one hundred miles in greatest breadth.
The old channel is now silted up at both ends and becomes a crescentic lagoon, or oxbow lake, which fills gradually to an arc-shaped shallow depression.
As a port Boston was of ancient importance, but in the 18th century the river had silted up so far as to exclude vessels exceeding about 50 tons.
This in ancient times seems to have formed a group of islands intersected by arms of the Hypanis or Kuban and various sounds now silted up.
I have said thus much in answer to the incredulity of those who cannot believe that the Pontus is actually being silted up, and will some day be filled; and that so vast a sea will ever become a lake or marsh.
He observed that where the river discharges itself into the sea its mouth got silted up in certain positions of the wind, and that then the passage over the river at its mouth became like that over a marsh.
Now you will not wonder how old harbours so often become silted up.
Now is it not plain that if such trees as that sunk, their bark would be turned into lignite, and at last into coal, while their insides would be silted up with mud and sand?
A few years ago the stone work at the entrance to the harbour of Selinunte was excavated, but it was silted over again in a single winter.
Cusumano Mouth of the harbour Rheithron, now silted up Map of the Ionian Islands Map of the Ægadean Islands Trapani from Mt.
Since Chellean times all three rivers have silted up their channels.
But the fact that the water of Tso-mavang is quite sweet is no proof that the lake has an outlet, seeing that it is only a few years since the canal was silted up.
And when the channel at the north-west corner is silted up, as it is now, the Manasarowar has a subterranean outlet to the neighbouring lake, and its water consequently remains perfectly fresh.
That old trap has been in the ground ever since I can mind; but there be no water now, and the sand has pretty nigh silted it up.
It was so far silted up in the year 1485, that an act was then obtained to build a bridge across it; and it has since become marsh land with small streams running through it.
Other fossil remains of this class have also been found in estuaries known to have been silted up in recent times, one example of which has been already mentioned near Lewes, in Sussex.
Thus the mouth of a river is silted up when its entrance into the sea is impeded by such accumulation of loose materials.
Are we quite sure that volcanoes, which are seldom far from the sea, are not fed by old deposits of organic matter which has collected in the primeval ocean, and, like the more recent coal measures, have been silted up?
Peat is formed in ways analogous to that of coal, and the so-called mineral oils are certainly the products of organic matter which has been silted up.
This stream has sincesilted up and has cut a new channel that causes it to open into Tutter's Neck Creek to the north of the house site.
The only datable artifact found in the vicinity was the base of a wine bottle of the first quarter of the 18th century that was lying in the silted bottom of a nearby rain-washed gully running towards the stream.
I allude only to the head of Glen Roy and Kilfinnin assilted up.
In short, fiords seem essentially to be submerged river gorges, partially silted up near their mouths, or perhaps partially closed by terminal moraines.
During a continental elevation the erosion had proceeded to that extent, and then the channel had been silted up during the Glacial period with the abundant material carried down by the streams from the glaciated area.
It's bin piling up there since ever this bank silted up.
Must have bin an opening then and it's got silted up.
The mouth of the river is so silted up that no yacht, and certainly no vessel of any tonnage, attempts nowadays to enter it, and thus there is no shelter unless the wind happens to be directly off shore.
The lake, therefore, was silted up with mud and decaying vegetation, and by the same process the bed of the river was raised.
The new river and lake were siltedup and the water returned northwards.
The chart he compiled is so exact that it may be used at the present day, though the coast has since then undergone changes in some places and has been further silted up with sand and made shallower.
There is a slight turn to the east, which might have protected a few small vessels during a northerly gale, but this portion is now silted up, and it should be cleared by dredging.
From this inner harbor, now abandoned and still, nearlysilted up and yearly submitting to the encroachment of vines upon its borders, the proud fleet of Alcibiades and Nicias sailed for Syracuse.
The opening farthest north had ages ago already been silted up with sand; and the next one is in a fair way to become so before long.
The northern end of the bay has also been a good deal silted up by streams flowing into it; and a long sand-bar has at last entirely shut it off from the rest, making of it a lake.
Arnold of Rugby felt this difficulty so strongly that in his edition of Thucydides he advanced the view that Pylos was Sphacteria, supposing that the third opening at the time of Thucydides had not been silted up.
He points out that there is a tendency in such sounds to be silted up, and always the more so in proportion to their narrowness.
When this lake or lagoon has at length been entirely silted up and converted into land, say, in the course of a century, the forest C D will extend once more continuously over the whole area C F, as in fig.
The port has been neglected and suffered to be silted up, although the rock-bound coast possesses no better harbour of refuge for storm-tossed boats.
This gulf was graduallysilted up by the torrents from the Pyrenees.
At one place about a mile away some one had widened out the river to form a lake, but this made the stream flow so slowly (as it was now so much wider) that the silt and clay deposited and the lake became silted up, i.
On its convex side the stream is rapid and deep, and scours away the bank; on its concave side it is slower, shallower, and tends to become silted up.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "silted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
