The Indus and the five rivers of the Punjab have their sources in the mountain range and carry loam, minerals and silt down to the rich alluvial plains, which consequently are very fertile.

Entire fields were covered in silt.

(s) the restoration of existing aquaculture ponds or lagoons through removal of silt, or possible measures aimed at the prevention of silt deposition.

And assuredly We have created human being from ringing clay of loam moulded.

The soils of the arid region are generally sandy to sandy loam in texture.

This loam, this rough cast, this stone, doth show that I am that same.

Molinia meadows on calcareous, peaty or clayey silt laden soils Molinioncaenuleae

Naturally occurring substances, silt, a sediment from inland bodies of water

Let him have some plaster or some loam, or roughcast about him to signify wall.

Molinia meadows on calcareous, peaty or clayey silt laden soils (Molinion caenuleae)

It is shaped like an inverted mushroom, the head becoming buried in the silt.

Old loam and clay pits are being used as dumping grounds for toxic and dangerous wastes including gypsum.

The river bed (floodplain) is itself made up of more recent alluvium (silt, sandy clay, and peat).

To make it worse, the river water mixed with silt poured in, which cut off many people s way out.

The soil is rich in silt, making the plain one of the most intensely farmed areas of the world.

And recall what time thy Lord said unto the angels verily I am about to createa man from ringing clay of loam moulded.

The glaciers left behind a moraine loam with pebbles and boulders of various rocks, such as granite, gneiss, quartzite, dolomite, limestone and sandstone.

It is covered by a first layer of Quaternary sands and silt, which is between 70 and 90 m deep.

He said it was not for me that should prostrate myself unto a human being whom Thou hast created from ringing clay of loam moulded.

Two scour pits, large underwater ditches, formed on either side of the wreck while silt and seaweed was deposited inside the ship.

A mushroom anchor will normally sink in the silt to the point where it has displaced its own weight in bottom material, thus greatly increasing its holding power.

The straits silt up at the rate of about 15 centimetres per annum, and dredging has made it possible to build the New Kitakyushu Airport at low cost.

There have been many cases of massive erosion of agricultural land, and in other cases the land lies covered by a layer of silt sometimes a metre deep.

The surface of coral is highly sensitive, and will now be exposed to major damage from all sorts of silt and debris carried back by water receding from flooded land.

Some of these lakes, like Avalanche Lake and Cracker Lake, are colored an opaque turquoise by suspended glacial silt, which also causes a number of streams to run milky white.

The sea bottom and shores are dominated by sand and silt brought by the rivers through the Bohai Sea (Liao River, Yellow River, Hai He) and the Korea Bay (Yalu River).

An example of this is the Rance estuary model, which harnesses wave power to generate electricity and also uses the silt to produce raw materials for the building industry and organic compost fertilisers for agricultural use.

The smell comes from the hydrogen carbonate in the alkaline water. The water is almost black with silt that sticks to the skin as soon as you slide into the pool a wellness experience of a particular kind.

Hygiene education is often non existent and the living and working areas of a mine and its surroundings can have water supplies that are highly contaminated with silt, mercury and organic materials because of the lack of sanitation.

The silt was in fact shifted 3 kilometres, at a cost of FF 6 million, the cure being worse than the disease, and a consequence that was foreseeable and actually predicted by the parties involved with the site.

In the broader, generic Muscadet AOC the soil is predominately silt and sand while the soils of the Muscadet Coteaux de la Loire has high concentration of schist and the Muscadet Côtes de Grandlieu sub appellation has a mixture of granite and schist based soils.

The construction of the Aswan High Dam across the Nile River in the 1960s reduced the inflow of freshwater and nutrient rich silt from the Nile into the Eastern Mediterranean, making conditions there even more like the Red Sea and worsening the impact of the invasive species.

The fine grained texture of the mud silt forming the limestone from the Solnhofen area (which is composed mainly of the towns of Solnhofen and Eichstätt) is ideal for making lithographic plates, and extensive quarrying in the 19th century revealed many fossil finds, as commemorated in the name Archaeopteryx lithographica , all the specimens of which come from these deposits.