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    silt


    silted


    silting


    silts


    1. and the soft silt of waking


    2. “You know,” He again chuckled softly amid fresh recollections, “they also told me you were quite frightened by the Silt Striders and Netches there in Morrowind


    3. “Huh? Silt Striders and Netches?” Penelope looked to the side, searching for any sort of reference in her mind


    4. Manon and Kevin peered out of the side windows but with the low light level outside and the silt stirred up in the water, they could see almost nothing


    5. Then, to save time, he wanted to cover them with the ground, to give them a mass burial and decided that if he stopped the world from spinning for a few seconds, the seas would wash over the bodies and cover them with silt


    6. He realized that with a certain amount of silt in it, you couldn’t see very deep


    7. Further, it also takes millions of years to fill a valley system with silt, assuming stable environmental conditions


    8. Extensive mats of uprooted vegetation could have lodged in different places that, in turn, would have been covered over by the eroded rock ground to silt as an end result of this overwhelming disturbance of a geologic status quo


    9. It would most likely have carried large amounts of silt and other debris, depositing it upon the flooded lower reaches of the twin rivers, but washing much of it into the gulf where it would have extended the delta lands ever farther from its ancient beginnings somewhere just south east of Ur, in the land of Sumer (Babylonia, Akkad of old)


    10. This may have given rise to the idea of building the “flood platforms,” first out of mud and silt and then faced with brick that might have been the precursors to the biblical “Tower of Babel” later theorized to be the Ziggurat, near Ur, of Babylonian and the Hanging Gardens fame

    11. If he were right in his synthesis of these indicators, there was a huge crater, mostly underwater, and largely buried under massive silt deposits, off Yucatan that was well within the radius he needed for confirmation of his theory


    12. of these travelers, rising water strained at a temporary plug of mud, silt and clay, shaken loose


    13. barely-missing footprint in the fine silt covering of a rock –


    14. A gas tanker can hold up to 9,500 gallons of fuel so when it drops fuel into the underground tank at a gas station if by chance there is any silt, dirt or sludge in the tank it is going to be disturbed


    15. But with that in mind, gas stations have filters on the intake pipe and filters at the dispersing pump that trap this dirt, silt and sludge


    16. His toes were almost the same color as the swirling silt in the Nile


    17. After analysing all the relevant data, Tony predicted that if we ever had a king tide accompanied by unusually high rainfall in the coastal ranges, coinciding with cyclonic winds from the sea, or something like that, then the canals would burst and join the river systems, drained land would revert to swamp, and silt would create a sandbar parallel to the coast, causing the river to sweep south and scour out the beach in front of us here


    18. I suppose it had all seemed like a good idea at the time, drain the swamps, channel the water, and build on the dredged silt


    19. They roam the seafloor in herds, trampling up clouds of long-settled silt wherever they run


    20. In tetchy silence they sailed through the corridor of overreaching thorns until at last, in a smooth, quiet transition, the boat grinded to a slow stop in a bed of wet silt

    21. It was full of silt but it did the trick


    22. It was close to the area to be surveyed and, situated on the outer corner of the river, the large hard sandy area on the bend, formed by centuries of silt deposits, made a perfect spot to unload the supply barges


    23. It had to be over 350 meters down, in the seabed silt, where the water temperature was below 2 °c


    24. The gas is locked in a solid form in the seabed silt, where the ocean is more than 350 meters deep and the water temperature is 2°celsius or less


    25. “The seabed is closer than the land, to the hot earth’s core, but the cold water and tremendous pressure keep the methane locked within the silt


    26. “Soon after the pontoons are positioned, the heat from the earth’s core starts to warm up the silt causing the gas to break free


    27. It takes this length of time for the heat from the earth’s core to build up in the silt


    28. The liner had been incinerated in a fireball comprising a mixture of methane released by the silt, and air, ignited by the ship’s engines or exhaust


    29. The bottom of their rowboat soon scrapped against the silt and sand of the island of Jeufosse, a small island in the middle of the Seine River that covered maybe sixty hectares of surface


    30. where silt is deposited in a river when it starts to flow slowly, toxins are deposited in the physical body where blockages are found

    31. I dragged him across a strip of silt and pulled him into the water until it swilled over his face


    32. I jumped up and clambered over the stones, where a pool of silt collected before the water found the harbor


    33. They had reached the shoreline and the silt and sand was half


    34. A river of mud flowed through the area and filled the house with about two-hundred tons of silt, mud, ash and water


    35. flood-delivered silt and so bountiful in water that the farmers did not have to labour for their crops


    36. rocks surrounding small Silt Lake, where they could sit


    37. You have to swill the water around the pan until the gold separates from the silt and gravel


    38. The excess is washed out to cover the ocean floors with silt; useless waste


    39. in silt is evidence that the creature died rapidly and


    40. The ground was dry, formed of the sand and silt left by the

    41. a prayer to the earth and coats the person with silt


    42. The bottom was covered with fine silt and mud that was half water and in this the two rabbits had made furrows as they dragged themselves to shore


    43. There’s a beachhead about ten miles north of our house, a not overly pleasant collection of sand and silt and beer-bottle shards


    44. Another tremor rocked the auditorium, and silt began to rain down from cracks in the reinforced concrete ceiling


    45. And all around us, still present under layers of deposited silt, ancient spiraling creatures, trilobites and ammonites


    46. What I heard was Crumley pacing the milkweed silt on the old woman's floor, which muffled his tread


    47. Water that is muddy with silt is likely to have come from the mouth of a large river


    1. Then, perhaps five weeks ago, a village in eastern Finitra called Whiskers Delta and the lands surrounding it were slowly destroyed by flood, their land silted with sand, and the king felt he needed to re-establish Finitrans in Shinosa or risk losing sovereignty of the Whilo Peaks range to the Kingdom of Membitra, your neighbor to the west


    2. We knew the granite outcrops in which we’ve built were the product of ancient eruptions, but didn’t know they were originally islands in a vast inland sea that had silted up


    3. It was in shallow water and silted into its mooring


    4. Reluctantly, but in an instant, Peg was up on the tray to check the interior which was silted and marred by flotsam


    5. They carefully crossed a rather rickety bridge over the creek, now silted up and choked with reeds


    6. The stick fell in silted sand, stuck


    7. After changing at Ipswich, a little local train deposited me at a small, deserted station lying amidst a rolling grassy country, with a sluggish and winding river curving in and out amidst the valleys, between high, silted banks, which showed that we were within reach of the tide


    1. He sees Frederick staring into his book of birds; he sees the furor of the mines at Zollverein, the shunting cars, the banging locks, the trundling conveyors, smokestacks silting the sky day and night; he sees Jutta slashing back and forth with a lit torch as darkness encroaches from all sides


    1. Gradually the physical body "Silts Up" with these negative energy blockages causing the build up of toxins eventually causing


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