Here extended deposits of peat may accumulate in swamps, and the remains of land and fresh- water animals and plants swept down by the stream are imbedded in the silts laid at times of flood.
Deep borings show that this great trough is filled to a depth of at least two thousand feet below sea level with recent unconsolidated sands and siltscontaining logs of wood and fresh- water shells.
Deep borings show that this great trough is filled to a depth of at least two thousand feet below sea level with recent unconsolidated sands and siltscontaining logs of wood and fresh-water shells.
Here extended deposits of peat may accumulate in swamps, and the remains of land and fresh-water animals and plants swept down by the stream are imbedded in the silts laid at times of flood.
Most of these lakes are now drained and we have, as records of them, only broad flats composed of fine clays and silts which accumulated as sediments in the lake bottoms.
The sediment cores obtained in the Nares Abyssal Plain consist of alternating red clays and quartz silts (Ericson et al.
The sediments of the Hatteras Abyssal Plain resemble the northern abyssal plains in having many beds of quartz silts (Pl.
In the abyssal plains relatively frequent turbidity flows have deposited an alternating sequence of clays andsilts which return a great number of reflections to the reflection seismograph.
Above the red sandstones is a thick series of gray sandstones and silts which makes the top of the section and unconformably overlies the earlier series.
The silts and muds constitute the outer fringe of the piedmont and are interrupted here and there where sands are blown upon them from the higher portions of the piedmont, or from the desert mountains and plains on the seaward side.
And Cap'n Abe allus did say the Siltswere proper seamen.
The heavier silts in the shape of sands moved more slowly under the pressure of the wind, and they formed great deserts of sand-dunes, heaped in places more than a hundred feet high.
During the sub-glacial period there was a general trend towards desolation, and the dried silts of seas and rivers were carried by the wind across the surface of the ground.
He added, almost roguishly, "The Siltsare kindness itself.
Why, the Silts gave me all these sandwiches and I've never eaten them.
It is ever cutting and eroding in places, and building bars and islands or covering with flood silts in others.
About 12 miles below Paimute, on left, some higher banks (old silts and dunes).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "silts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
