They do very well when the water is not deep and the ground loose sand, silty sand, or sandy fine gravel, and nothing else; and I prefer disc piles for sand, provided the water power can be easily obtained.
The soil must be loose, and if it is silty so much the better.
In any ground harder than loose sand, silty and alluvial soil screwing is not easy, and you cannot say what it will cost to obtain the necessary power to screw.
The moist, silty soil beneath the willow grove is covered with a dense mat of low vegetation including giant ragweed, carpenter's square, dayflower, and rice cutgrass.
The silty soil preferred by the willow is scarce as both streams are actively eroding their channels.
If the soil in question were a silty clay, it would naturally make 2 1/2 inches available per foot.
A light to heavy silty loam, underlaid by a silty clay loam, is considered best.
If the bottom of the ditch consists of quicksand or other silty matters, clay or some other suitable earth should be sought in that which was excavated from a less depth, or should be brought from another place.
Salt marshes are formed of the silty deposits of rivers and of the sea.
The continental rise is generally covered by silty foraminiferal lutites, but, where submarine canyon deltas spread out from the mouths of submarine canyons (Ericson et al.
The crest zone is covered by Globigerina ooze in the north and red clay in the south; it is isolated from the silty clays of the continental slope except on its northwest flank.
Those Recent sediments which temporarily remain in the province range from foraminiferal lutites, found in such areas as the Bahamas, to silty lutites relatively poor in pelagic fossils, found in the higher latitudes.
Like the gravelly loam the stony loams are one-fourth to three-fourths sandy, silty or clay loam, the remainder being rock fragments of larger size than the gravel.
By rubbing some of this between the fingers, both dry and wet, one can get a fair idea of how a silty soil should feel.
The most common form, however, of failure is the sliding forwards of a dock wall, with little or no subsidence, on a silty or slippery stratum under the pressure imposed by the backing.
The Meadow of Loudoun is usually a brown silty or sandy loam, with a depth of several feet.
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