Meaning & use
silt
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Fine particles of sand, clay, or other sediment carried by moving water and deposited on a riverbed, floodplain, or coastline.
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Years of flooding deposited a thick layer of silt across the valley floor.
The river ran brown with silt after the heavy storm.
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A key term in geology and environmental science; silt particles are finer than sand but coarser than clay.
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