silt
ಹೂಳು
definition
verb
the river's mouth had silted up
become filled or blocked with silt.
noun
Water continuing out over the playa surface carries with it a quantity of fine sand, silt , and clay in suspension.
fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment, especially in a channel or harbor.
translation of 'silt'
ಗೋಡು,
ಹೂಳು,
ಹೂಣು,
ಮೆಕ್ಕಲು
example
There it attaches to particles of minerals (sand, 'silt' , and clay) and organic matter, forming clumps.
However, in addition to that alluvium much of central Belfast is underlain instead by a deposit of soft grey mud, 'silt' and fine sand with numerous sea shells, in particular oysters.
They carry 'silt' which replenishes the topsoil and enables agriculture to flourish.
The textures of soils reflect the proportion of sand, 'silt' , and clay sizes within that portion of an inorganic soil fraction that is less than 2 mm.
This is soil whose properties are controlled equally by the percentages of clay, 'silt' and sand particles.
The way sand, 'silt' and clay particles are grouped together in aggregates is called the soil structure.
Tidal processes constantly winnow the substrate surface in the submerged mouthbar front, and resuspend mud and 'silt' into the water.
Soil texture, or the proportion of sand, 'silt' and clay particles, directly influences nutrient content, moisture and drainage.
Water continuing out over the playa surface carries with it a quantity of fine sand, 'silt' , and clay in suspension.
Excavations in 1990 added weight to the idea that the horse dates from later prehistory as deposits of fine 'silt' in the beak were scientifically dated to the early first millennium BC.
The towers fall, the rivers 'silt' , the bridges crumble.
Soils are composed of Gilpin silt loam, a moderately deep, well drained soil with a lower subsoil of 'silty' clay loam of the subgroup Typic Hapludult.
Near the top of the succession blue-grey 'silty' calcareous mudstones are interbedded with subordinate graded sandstones.
There are no open drains, fortunately, or they'd be 'silted' by now.
It says the crop has triggered soil erosion, 'siltation' of waterways, widespread use of toxic chemicals and pesticides and road building through some of the world's most delicate habitats.
Of course, we would be told that the river has now 'silted' up and that at low tide it would be impossible.
Under the placic layers were 10s of meters of stratified glaciodeltaic sands and 'silts' .
The lagoon will also have to be dredged as it is heavily 'silted' and the fish are dying because the water is too shallow and the lagoon is not being adequately flushed.
Fish are taken from the river in places where it is badly 'silted' and basically what happens is that they are stripped and hatched to the ova stage.
These units contain intercalated thin, discontinuous lenses of 'silts' and mudstones, some displaying desiccation cracks.
The sediments comprise silts, sand, gravel and, often lenticular, 'silty' clay, comparable with similar sediments in the Petrockstowc basin, where the bulk of the deposits are Eocene.
Additionally, once logged, many national forests are prone to flooding, mudslides and stream destruction due to runoff and 'siltation' .
In fact, badlands occur in a wide range of environments, and on various materials, from marine 'silts' in valleys of the Canadian Arctic to mine-spoil heaps in New Guinea.
The defendants erected ferry terminals in the Thames, and, as a result, parts of the river bed 'silted' up.
In addition to predation and competition by exotic species, these fish were also negatively impacted by overfishing, pollution, 'siltation' and other forms of habitat degradation.
I would mix the soil in the heavily 'silted' water of the Mekong River as a way to spread this handful of soil throughout Vietnam.
Local people cultivate tapioca, rice and vegetables on the heavily 'silted' riverbed.
The sediments include lacustrine freshwater limestones, 'silts' , marls, occasional sands and local lignite.
Overgrazing in the surrounding lowlands and logging in the highlands are causing severe soil erosion, which in turn has caused heavy 'siltation' in the lake.
The Gonubie River does not have a typically big flushing flow while 'silting' in Transkei rivers is a result of ‘poor land use practice’.
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