Silt and water covers the floors inside Derrick Daffin's home.
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This is due to silt from the Himalayas containing arsenopyrite.
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Trawlers scraped the sea floor clean of silt and seaweed.
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Silt from fire-damaged valleys can clog streams, which kills fish.
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If silt were dumped in this way it could be disastrous.
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Silt and sediment has settled at the bottom of two bottles.
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A farmer's child, surely, river silt running thickly through her veins.
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When the water recedes, the remaining black silt feeds the land.
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Then I crouched and ran a finger through the ceramic silt.
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Runoff exacerbated by deforestation carries silt and pollution into the lake.
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Rain washes away the track's silt and clay, its binding materials.
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And some of it is tea brown, tinted by the coastal silt.
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On top of this, dams hold back billions of tonnes of silt.
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The answer is actually SILTS, because silt can be deposited in riverbanks.
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The answer is actually SILTS, because silt can be deposited in riverbanks.
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This leads to accumulation of silt in the dam and causes more flooding.
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My introduction to the silt was the public boat launch at Fort Simpson.
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Season after season, layer after layer, clay and sand and silt built up.
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"This is a silt island that only emerged into view recently," he said.
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Sand and silt are also big concerns because they can damage vital equipment.
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They are surrounded by real sand, and yet their bottoms are mucky, sucking silt.
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The Mackenzie's dual personality persists over weeks of paddling, but eventually the silt wins.
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Just below sand on the size scale is silt; just above it is gravel.
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Clogged with silt, today, it is no more than a shallow, fetid wastewater canal.
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Within, layers of concrete descended to rings of silt and limestone, then black abyss.
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Flash floods carried dark, ash-filled silt and debris into Denver's reservoirs, clogging them.
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Silt reduces the amount of light reaching the algae on which some fish species feed.
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The town exists because of that silt, and yet will eventually be destroyed by it.
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For thousands of years the silt has both nourished and destroyed on an unparalleled scale.
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And then there was the ghostly sight of dozens of helmets lying in the silt.
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Once marsh grass is established, it spreads into deeper water, capturing silt as it goes.
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Picture, in this case, running on a trail covered in a layer of slippery silt.
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The river was a hundred yards from the steps, across a bleak expanse of silt.
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Streams and springs are filling with silt and drying up as vegetation around them vanishes.
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Their hooves trample the banks of creeks, killing vegetation that stops silt from building up.
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Unsworth explained that parts of the cave had been blocked by silt, blocking the part where the boys had been, so he and his friends spent four hours digging through the silt and then made their way to where the boys had been found.
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Other parts of the shore are covered in mud and silt so fine it resembles quicksand.
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They are places where all the sediment and silt swirled up by the ocean's activity settle.
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They will monitor how much silt it disturbs, and will shut down the operation if necessary.
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The river is very dark, and silt and dirt filter into it, so lights were required.
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The alluvial flow from various rivers has carpeted the seabed with 203 meters of fine silt.
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Nor would they be appropriate at public swimming beaches, where people seek sand rather than silt.
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Ash and silt flowing into the sea can choke fish's gills and smother seagrasses and seaweed.
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But the river has steadily filled in with silt, leaving the submarine mired in the muck.
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He looked at the composition of the silt, clay and sand that make up the track.
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Eleven miles downstream, gray-blue with glacial silt, it reaches the small temple town of Gangotri.
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So figuring out the Mississippi's hydrodynamics—the way its water, silt, and sand ebb and flow—matters.
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The Ganges and the other great rivers fill then overflow, spreading silt-rich fertility across their floodplains.
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Silt at the bottom of the river prevented air and bacteria from chewing away at the wood.
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Taking a third of that away each year, engineers worry, would stir up huge quantities of silt.
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So, rocks falling into the ocean and silt from rivers isn't the cause of sea level rise.
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We've looked at the bubbles in the ice, the pollen in the pond silt, the tree rings.
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Mr. Stein's funny shapes jutted up against the group's circular, silt-over-rock flow, creating good tension.
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Rivers were choked with brown silt, the soil and nutrients stripped off the land by pounding rains.
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They told us that much of the land is really only silt, held together by tangled undergrowth.
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But downstream districts suffer from the resulting silt, traffic and run-off without receiving any of the benefits.
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Its harvesting will throw up plumes of silt which, in settling, could swamp the sea floor's delicate ecosystem.
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Smooshed between two mountain ranges, the delta can only grow north, silt deposits creating more and more islands.
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The seafloor is covered in a layer of crumbly silt that reaches as deep as two hundred feet.
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The Indonesian Red Cross described having to dig through silt as deep as 20 feet in the area.
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Disappointingly she found it even among blacks, with their talk of mocha, hazelnut, onyx, tar- and silt-black.
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They are spending millions of dollars a year clearing silt from their dams, with some – especially Sudan - suffering flooding.
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Thinning has become popular in the state, but, he says, it disturbs soil, generating silt that harms aquatic life.
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In the past such subsidence would have been offset by a perennial supply of silt deposited by tributary rivers.
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Other options for gentler slopes are laying down jute, wattles (encased tubes of straw) and silt fencing, he said.
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They also help push renovations forward and contribute to the city's main export item, Arcosanti bells cast in silt.
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The seabed is covered with some 80 meters of fine silt deposited by the alluvial flow from various rivers.
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When she returned a while later, she found the tub stood only half full, the water murky with silt.
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The captured silt mixes with organic matter to become soil, and gradually extends the shore further into the sea.
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Rain lashed forests of horsetails and ferns, sweeping plants and animals out to sea and burying them in silt.
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Tracks typically truck in sand from the surrounding area, and then add in clay and silt as binding materials.
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It sat on beige silt, some 22015,226 metres beneath the sea's surface, and was entirely covered in a black coating.
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Callahan parked at the end of the pipe so we could see the silt pour out into a roadside pool.
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Even better is the soil, with lowlands made of rich silt deposited by the Mississippi River over thousands of years.
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With such a rich silt of xenophobia to sift through, it seems, most people aren't paying attention to the alternative.
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When whole wheat bread is pricey, then Millennials will wilt — and wash away forever like some tide-born murky silt.
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Now, he was helping to sweep the silt into her yard, and stripping her sodden carpet with a bread knife.
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But, up close, these moving masses are a mix of boulders, silt, and organic matter, with below-freezing liquid cores.
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Its base is sedimentary: coconut and chopped walnuts bound together by a buttery silt of cocoa and crushed graham crackers.
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Bryan said rivers dammed by landslides created stagnant water polluted by silt and bacteria, leaving people with the threat of disease.
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A team spent weeks scuba diving in the warm crystal clear water off the beach, dispersing silt to uncover ancient artifacts.
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Floating Island, which emerged from the silt only about 20 years ago, is about 30 km (0003 miles) from the mainland.
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Hers were surprisingly small: They were lashless and unfeminine—the only unfeminine thing about her appearance— and the color of silt.
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Some are so damaged that they melt into dust at the slightest touch, while some are silt on the ocean floor.
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Begun in 237 B.C. and dedicated to Horus, the temple was partially obscured by silt when Harriet Martineau visited in 1846.
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But as they descended deeper into the darkness they noticed a thick layer of dirt and silt swirling along the seafloor.
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Floating Island, which emerged from the silt only about 20 years ago, is about 30 km (21 miles) from the mainland.
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Inside Raffa's glass-fronted building, silt and other deposits from the river coated bottles, tables, floors, saltshakers, and bottles of wine.
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Covered in soft silt, largely shielded from oxygen and light, and kept at a low temperature, objects were unusually well preserved.
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The denuded landscape will also erode more quickly as water flows across it, meaning runoff will carry more silt and debris.
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For ancient Egyptians, the summer solstice foreshadowed the annual flooding of the Nile River, whose water and silt nutrified the surrounding land.
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Today silt is much more likely to be trapped upstream by dams, mined for building material or dredged to clear shipping lanes.
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Over countless millenniums, rivers from the Andes deposited rocks and silt, leaving deep clay soils, stones and gravel in many varying combinations.
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Cut the world in half and under the mud and the silt and the igneous rock there's one massive fucking radiating bollock.
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The Walias's seminal album Tche Belew features the single "Musicawi Silt," one of the most famous songs of all time in Ethiopia.
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But early investigators found the hilly ridges to be composed of clay, silt, sand, pebbles, cobbles and boulders, all jumbled up together.
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At this time of year in Thailand, this stretch of the world's most productive river should be brown and swollen with silt.
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It shall come to settle on the silt, next to my heart, perhaps, which I lost to those murky depths long ago.
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He also suggested that silt from rivers including the Mississippi, Amazon, and Nile could be contributing to the changing levels of the seas.
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Taking away more than 20 million cubic meters of silt would increase the depth of lake by 3.5 meters (11.5 ft), he noted.
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Starved of silt, and with less new organic matter to counteract its settling, coastal Louisiana is sinking back into its former watery state.
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A lot of mud and silt which the foal gulped during the last seconds of its life were found inside its gastrointestinal tract.
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Their first album, Silt, was very much true to the name Alsarah has given the genre she plays, the aforementioned East African retropop.
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Tangier's location in the center of the bay, along with its friable turf of sand and silt, leaves it dangerously exposed and fragile.
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Chandon China's main building, a minimalist box constructed in 2013, had been painted yellow, to match the distinctive yellow silt of the Tengger.
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At the bottom of the Gulf, dark with Mississippi silt, rests the broken derrick of an oil rig—and isn't oil also beautiful?
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Tributaries top their banks and meet each other catastrophically in the middle, they unite to blast silt and strange oils into the current.
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The silt was mixed with glass-like microalgae called diatoms, and, reflecting the bright light emitted by the sub's LEDs, it dazzled him.
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Every year, Bangladesh's major rivers carry silt from the world's tallest mountain range and deposit it downstream and throughout a network of tributaries.
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The new collection, modeled by the conceptual artist Laila Gohar, features glass in organic shapes, with rippled surfaces evocative of silt or water.
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For three days, the tempest hurled silt off the former seabed of what was once the planet's fourth-largest inland body of water.
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The other components of land building — silt and clay — are suspended fairly evenly in the water and will flow out with the current.
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The Bay of Bengal island, also known as Thenger Char, only emerged from the silt off Bangladesh's delta coast about 11 years ago.
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There were tents, camouflage netting, and a gravel lot where helicopters beat down from above, scattering a gyre of silt into the air.
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A heart that double- times, an anxiety hammer: I like the silt to fit around me and become somebody's nerve, a body revolting.
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The island, which only emerged from the silt off Bangladesh's delta coast 11 years ago, is two hours by boat from the nearest settlement.
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To help protect them, the mining field will be ringed with buoys, monitoring any plumes of silt that are bigger than DEME had predicted.
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The results are all too evident: perennial streams are now ephemeral, and massive quantities of topsoil silt up dams and flow into the oceans.
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In a wet spring, the water'd run clear and high, minnows mouthing the sand and silt, a crawdad shadowed by the shore's long reeds.
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The silt-free water that gushes through it fails to replenish embankments downstream, thus weakening them as flood barriers (several have collapsed this year).
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Peyto Lake in Canada's Banff National Park is shockingly blue thanks to meltwater and silt from the Peyto Glacier and the Wapta Icefields nearby.
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People in search of firewood for heat and cooking have denuded their hills, causing floods and droughts and making silt pile up at dams.
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"It was almost five feet, the water line," said Ms. Anderson, whose floor was covered in silt and who lost many of her possessions.
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Five sprawling artificial islands, constructed from sucked-up and refashioned fine silt, clay and shells, offer a haven for plants, birds and other wildlife.
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This is a book about women and the narratives about mental illness that, throughout history, have gathered around them like silt in a river.
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It takes a few episodes to get into Patriot's vibe, but once you do, it'll settle to the bottom of your soul like silt.
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Rusting, dilapidated fishing boats littered the arid landscape, and salt kicked up from the silt of what was once the sea floor pelted surrounding villages.
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Male lampreys seek out promising mating sites by following the scent of young lampreys—which stay in the silt for four years before they mature.
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The audit found that operations at the Emir Mineral and Mt. Sinai mines have caused silt build-up in coastal waters and deforestation, said Jasareno.
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"As soon as we saw the red silt coming down I ran," he told Reuters TV. "We flooded in five minutes," said Athena, another resident.
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Four rivers, fed by monsoon rainfall, drain into Kuttanad, bringing fresh water, fertile silt and flooding that can last for weeks between June and October.
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The researchers took trips to outcrops of sedimentary rock beside rivers in Peru, where fossils have been found lodged in the sand, silt, and clay.
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Business chiefs and investors fear leaving the EU without a deal would silt up the arteries of trade, spook financial markets and dislocate supply chains.
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The fountain in La Colonnade will be filled with moraine, granite that was ground to a fine silt by glaciers in the last ice age.
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It carried dredged material pumped from Poplar's bulkhead, where ships arrived with the silt carried from Baltimore channels, to the places being "infilled" on Poplar.
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She commands her orderlies to scrub the windows better, as if by purifying her workspace she can eliminate the silt of dishonesty from the world.
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Settlement and agriculture in fertile bottomlands contributed further silt, plus an unwelcome gout of fertilizers and pesticides that poisoned river ecosystems from the bottom up.
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Heavy rainfall could bring lots of silt to waterways like Lake Cachuma, where barriers are already being erected, as well as unwanted matter, she said.
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The deposits of sand, silt and rounded pebbles dumped by the retreating glacier are 300 to 400 feet deep in parts of Brooklyn and Queens.
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Parts of flooded farmland remained under water and farmers had yet to assess the damage the piled-up sand, silt and debris caused to soil.
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Many chief executives fear Britain could still leave without a deal, a scenario they warn would spook financial markets and silt up the arteries of trade.
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The imagery is beguiling: plumes of silt drifting off half-buried treasure, giant sculptures foregrounded by schools of fish, and raised objects shimmering in the shallows.
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But it may be that some as-yet-unknown physical process is keeping the fossils and the (equally old) nodules at the surface of the silt.
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For months the lo'i were choked with silt, borne down from the mountains carrying the seeds of weeds that soon reared up taller than the taro.
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She began leading us past tidal pools and along the beach, a mix of silt and peat held together by the thin roots of marsh grasses.
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Millennium Tower sits on land prone to liquefaction, the process by which loose sand and silt behave like a liquid in the event of an earthquake.
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In 2012, the bureau ordered the suspension of Claver's mining operations due to excessive silt buildup in the area where it is located, local media reported.
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Marshland is born of rivers: as silt is sluiced down from the land to the sea, the tides in turn lift it back onto the land.
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As silt accumulates on them, the mud flats rise until they stand clear of the sea for long enough to become colonized by salt-loving plants.
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A boil-water advisory remained in effect Tuesday, as the city works to filter "much higher levels of debris, silt, and mud" from the Highland Lakes.
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But many business chiefs and investors fear a chaotic Brexit that they say would weaken the West, spook financial markets and silt up the arteries of trade.
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The fact is that with hundreds of companies joining the VR gold rush, we're going to be panning a lot of silt for every grain of gold.
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Two-hundred crisp miles below Great Slave Lake, the Liard River comes in from the west, flush with silt from the melting glaciers of northern British Columbia.
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As more Bangladeshi families are uprooted by climate change pressures, including rising seas and coastal erosion, the Forest Department is distributing fallow land formed from river silt.
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So while these images of layers of rock and silt and sand and clay don't look like water, this is what water looks like under Los Angeles.
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And yet, there they were, a fleet of graders and bulldozers and dump trucks, laboring through the mounded silt on one of the delta's countless unnamed islands.
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As it drains out of a glacier here, rock silt dyes the ice-cold torrent an opaque gray, but biologically, the river is pristine — free of bacteria.
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About 10 million people - mostly poor farmers and fishermen - live on sand and silt islands known as chars, which change shape constantly as they erode and reform.
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Chipinge District Administrator William Mashava said erosion following heavy rains had filled three dams in the district with silt, threatening ongoing problems even after the flooding crisis abates.
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An estimated 800 cubic feet of silt poured from out of the hull, ruining an opportunity for the archaeologists to study the ship's artifacts in their original position.
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The silt can also settle to the bottom of reservoirs, taking up space needed to store drinking water and forcing utilities to spend heavily to dredge it out.
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While mashing around a lump of clay to little effect, Shayk also somehow manages to get a whole lot of silt smeared across her face, breasts, and thighs.
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The left bank is piled high with the detritus of the Rockies, driftwood hulks of massive pine trees and dark silt that suctioned my feet with each step.
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Fire likely destroyed the posts of the dwelling, causing it to fall into a river, sink and become covered by silt, thus preserving the structure and its contents.
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The bones were trapped in ironstone because when the dinosaur died, some of the bones separated and went downstream before becoming lodged together in a silt-filled area.
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The delta that fans into the Gulf of Mexico, formed from silt carried by the Mississippi River, is subsiding and is no longer replenished by the powerful waterway.
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Aid workers who spoke to Reuters said they remain seriously concerned that the silt island is vulnerable to frequent cyclones and cannot sustain livelihoods for thousands of people.
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Yet it's an process as old as the river itself—which, long before the levees, regularly deposited water and silt into the nearby land when the banks flooded.
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The cosmetic chemist who already had the formula for the detoxifying silt gelée mask she proposed gets more than the innovator who has a seedling of an idea.
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A window into the past Clay, silt, sand, pollen, chemicals and other substances from the surrounding environment accumulate slowly -- and continuously -- in layers at the bottom of lakes.
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River fish like it could be severely affected in the aftermath of the fires as rains wash huge amounts of silt and ash into their habitat, Woinarski said.
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Analysis: Brazil has 88 mining dams built like the one that failed: enormous reservoirs of mining waste held back by little more than walls of sand and silt.
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There is deep concern in boardrooms about the prospect of Britain leaving the bloc without a deal, or with a deal that would silt up the arteries of trade.
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As you can see in this aerial shot from May 2016 (after the Slims was pirated), the Slims is a fraction of its former self — largely silt and mud.
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Business leaders fear additional checks on the post-Brexit UK-EU border will clog ports, silt up the arteries of trade and dislocate supply chains across Europe and beyond.
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"The grass has a brown tint to it from all the mud and silt that was in the floodwater and the cows don't like to eat it," he said.
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Filling in some of these relatively shallow waters would also solve another problem—that of where to deposit silt dredged from the harbor to maintain adequate depth for shipping.
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Ecologists and environmental campaigners charge that the new dam projects have not taken climate change adequately into account in their calculations of river flow, silt loads and energy potential.
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There are 88 mining dams in Brazil built like the one that failed: enormous reservoirs of mining waste held back by little more than walls of sand and silt.
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The storm, which has killed at least 10 people across the U.S. territory, turned the couple's street into bed of debris-strewn silt after a nearby river burst its banks.
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But aid workers doubt this is a long-term solution: Bhasan Char only emerged from the silt 30km off the mainland about 20 years ago and is prone to flooding.
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And I stayed there, sunk my fingers into the soft, crumbling silt until my lungs twisted and convulsed, because even though the freezing water cut like knives, it was soundless.
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By the time the river has turned abruptly eastward onto the vast and populous north China plain, a litre of river water carries up to 300 grams of alluvial silt.
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"The high level of debris, silt and mud requires extended filtration that slows the process of getting treated water into the system," Austin Water Utility said in a press release.
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"The high level of debris, silt and mud requires extended filtration that slows the process of getting treated water into the system," Austin Water Utility said in a press release.
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The life of the river has adapted to monsoon floods that bring silt and allow fish to migrate and a dry season that leaves land exposed where birds can breed.
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Millennium Tower is located in an area that is highly vulnerable to liquefaction, a process in which loose sand and silt behaves like a liquid when shaken by an earthquake.
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Siem Pang sits in what is known as the 3S Basin, where the Sekong, Sesan and Srepok rivers flow in a tangle of silt and lush greenery into the Mekong.
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Portable air-conditioning units (but not outdoor or ground-mounted central air units, which can be contaminated with silt) can also help reduce humidity and moisture levels in your home.
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The baymen contend that water jets on the Flower dredges damage the fragile ecosystem on the harbor bottom and stir up a deep layer of silt that causes oxygen depletion.
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Full of risk, they're marshes where islands form out of silt and reeds, drift and then break apart, where the boundaries between land and water can't be drawn for sure.
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Analysis: There are 88 mining dams in Brazil built like the one that failed: enormous reservoirs of mining waste held back by little more than walls of sand and silt.
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Even after the waters receded, his land was strewn with sand, silt and other debris that he estimated would cost $500 to $600 an acre to get back into production.
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The Madhya Pradesh government announced last year, for instance, that it would no longer include work to de-silt and deepen water ponds as part of employment under the job scheme.
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So, returning to Brooks' claim -- it's true that rocks fall from cliffs, silt is deposited by rivers and all manners of terrestrial debris enter the oceans and fall to the bottom.
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He grooms the hillsides to make sure that silt and other materials don't clog the four salmon streams through which coho, king and steelhead swim from the Eel River to spawn.
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When he was a child, he recalled, the entire community would turn out each spring to clean out the karez, using buckets to remove silt that impeded the flow of water.
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Liquefaction is a phenomenon where saturated sand and silt take on the characteristics of a liquid during the intense shaking of an earthquake, according to the United States Geological Survey website.
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" Their father chimed in: "Getting out of the swim, do not let your feet drop as you're coming to the ramp; it's just this disgusting, slimy silt at the bottom there.
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The water was rich with silt, chocolate brown; a few children investigated at its edge with buckets, paddling where it foamed lazily, curling warm around their ankles, sucking under their soles.
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The high volume of rain and snow melt runoff flowing through the Missouri has carried excessive silt and other material, changing the taste of the water in recent weeks, Givens said.
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"The sand and silt plumes created by dredging sand and gravel and depositing it on the coral reefs either would have killed fish or expelled them from the reefs," the report said.
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A sonar diagram visualizes how Dungeon Canyon — a winding formation of red canyon walls that Porter used for his cover — is still there, although covered with silt and inaccessible in the water.
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Fort Simpson sits on an island of silt, the slough formed when the clear main channel meets the laden mountain river, a tail of land narrowing to the north with the current.
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Over a pea-gravel base, workers will add a layer of sand, and atop that, a clay-silt-sand mix that will help keep the infield just moist enough after pregame watering.
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In response, Bangladesh has floated the idea of relocating the Rohingya to Thengar Char, an uninhabited -- and some unstable -- newly formed silt island that emerged in 2006 from the Bay of Bengal.
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The siltation has spread to rivers, said Edgardo Obra, vice chairman of the Concerned Citizens of Santa Cruz, pointing to one that he says had almost dried up because of the silt.
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The dredging of the channels would have occurred anyway — it's necessary to keep the port deep enough for large cargo ships — but ordinarily the silt would be dumped out in the ocean.
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The track fell within its usual range in terms of moisture retention, layer depth, and, once the team had time to work clay and silt into the track, the ratio of materials.
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That's because 12 tons of clay, silt and sand mixtures were shipped by boat from the United States to make the batter's box, pitcher's mound, base pits and bullpens feel like home.
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Many coastal areas, including beaches, are already heavily affected by human activity such as seashore construction and inland dams, which reduce the amount of silt flowing into oceans that's crucial for beach recovery.
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Tarpeh said this kind of mismatch was common and that it became a problem because of a disruption in the shipping schedule caused by a build-up of silt in the city's port.
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It carries sediment more concentrated than in any other river in the world — so much that tiny particles of sand and silt clog reservoirs, raise riverbeds, break levees and cause potentially catastrophic floods.
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Determined to stem the exodus and repair confidence in the region, civil society groups and government agencies are trying to revive water bodies, de-silt ponds and build dams for irrigation and rainwater harvesting.
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The erosional forces of the sea and wind along the coast continuously mould the landscape, together with the huge amounts of silt and other sediments, deposited in the countless estuaries, visible in the water.
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An array of sensors suspended in the nearby water will monitor the resultant silt plume, which the company's models suggest could travel up to 5km—not the hundreds of kilometres that some have suggested.
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The newly formed Port Aransas Conservancy in south Texas has argued Carlyle's plan would endanger sea turtle nesting areas, dump silt onto nearby islands, and threaten shellfish that reach estuaries through the ship channel.
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LONDON (Reuters) - All flights to and from London's City Airport were canceled on Monday after an unexploded World War Two bomb weighing half a tonne was found buried in silt in the River Thames.
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But only about 200 were there to see the video, study the diagrams and maps and examine a display of electrical equipment ruined by salty floodwater and silt: a mini-museum of rotting infrastructure.
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Sure, you could drop $60 on a fancy store-bought mask like Volition's Detoxifying Silt Gelée Mask, but why bother when you can make your own from items you probably already have at home?
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It offered a rare glimpse into the heart of the ridge: a jumble of clay, silt, pebbles and boulders in a fragile matrix laid bare by the action of tides, hurricanes and pounding waves.
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In Baltimore, we left dozens of parrot tulips that had been my father's pride; in Texas, a vegetable garden of wildly curling squash vines where once there had been only silt; in Irvine, Calif.
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The slide is occurring in a rumpled layer cake of volcanic rock, or basalt, laid down by eruptions that began about 17 million years ago, interspersed with thin deposits of silt and other sediments.
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Yet it's worth reading not just because it's fun historical nonfiction, but because it's a reminder that knowledge doesn't simply accumulate over time like silt: It has to be deliberately collected, preserved, and appropriately funded.
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But if the label's other releases were to evoke the "behaviors" of water, Chat is more like the silt that gets left behind: gritty, tactile, and prone to accumulate in ways you don't exactly expect.
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Copious flooding that inundated the city caused riverbeds to overflow in areas and fill up the region's water supply lakes with silt, prompting concerns from city health officials over the state of the local water.
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Copious flooding that inundated the city caused riverbeds to overflow in areas and fill up the region's water supply lakes with silt, prompting concerns from city health officials over the state of the local water.
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By constructing the system entirely underground, its creators sought to shield the water from animal droppings, silt and, more important, the evaporating power of the sun, which regularly sends summertime temperatures above 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
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In the case of the Pasur, not only does it carry chunks of sediment from the Himalayas, but it also experiences build-ups of silt and clay pushed in from the sea by its tide.
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The sand and silt plumes created by dredging sand and gravel can kill fish or drive them from the reefs — a major problem for Southeast Asian fishermen who rely on the creatures for their livelihood.
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Many business chiefs and investors fear politics could torpedo an agreement, thrusting the economy into a no-deal void that they say would weaken the West, spook financial markets and silt up the arteries of trade.
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This isn't a Mark Watney death storm, though: The winds on Mars are not particularly fast, so they lift the really fine silt on the surface and keep it lingering in suspension for a long time.
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Their habit of stirring up tons of silt as they foraged for food turned the once-clear Murray and Darling Rivers murky, cutting the sunlight for aquatic plants and preventing some native fish from spotting prey.
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When rains finally came to the Central Coast region of New South Wales, a local Aboriginal land council called the Darkinjung created barricades to prevent the silt and ash-laden runoff from entering the region's waterways.
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And few, if any, rivers reveal this unnatural world more than the Colorado, which no longer reaches the sea or carries along its entire 1,450-mile length much of the reddish silt that inspired its name.
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Many business chiefs and investors fear politics could scupper an agreement, thrusting the world's fifth largest economy into a "no-deal" Brexit that they say would spook financial markets and silt up the arteries of trade.
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Within its sediments are layer upon layer of fine silt washed in from the shore, golden pollen grains from flowers and trees, charcoal from forest fires, insect wings, fungus spores and the remains of microscopic algae.
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The sound is not worlds away from Silt, but there are multiple electronic flourishes, harmonies that sound decidedly modern, and found sound interludes that Alsarah labored over for in a "very, very methodical process" that took months.
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Since then, the corps has been filling the pools inside the perimeter wall with silt dredged from the channels leading into Baltimore Harbor and carted here by scow 21920 hours a day during active periods of construction.
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The plums might be sticky or desiccated; armed with seed or pitted; dyed a virulent char siu red that stains the fingers or left "white," really a pale rust, like the silt of a river run dry.
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Business leaders are triggering contingency plans to cope with additional checks on the post-Brexit UK-EU border they fear will clog ports, silt up the arteries of trade and dislocate supply chains in Europe and beyond.
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Business leaders have already triggered contingency plans to cope with additional checks on the post-Brexit UK-EU border they fear will clog ports, silt up the arteries of trade and dislocate supply chains in Europe and beyond.
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But CityLab has reported on islands that are actually being created as well — including artificial islands meant to trap silt and provide a sanctuary for birds, and an archipelago of islands that provide extra housing space in Amsterdam.
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During the dive, Cowboy says he had a "catastrophic worst case scenario" when the gang was caught in a "silt out" ... which is when particles on the sea floor get kicked up, causing ZERO visibility for the divers.
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Our ancestors filled in the wetlands, built more and more roads and homes along the seashore as well as dams that hold back replenishing, river-born silt, all of which has contributed to the coastal problems we face.
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An engineer told officials that the bridge on the New York State Thruway had failed because floodwaters scoured gravel and silt from around its footings, stirring up the stream bed around the structure and causing it to shift.
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Sydney, Australia's largest city, had to temporarily stop using water from one of its major supply dams after it was inundated with fire ash, forcing officials to install silt curtains to prevent the spread of ash into reservoirs.
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Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest and most crowded nations, plans to develop the island, which emerged from the silt off Bangladesh's delta coast only 11 years ago and is two hours by boat from the nearest settlement.
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The structure, owned by the giant Brazilian mining company Vale S.A., strained the very definition of "dam" — it was an enormous, bare-bones reservoir of mining waste held back by little more than walls of sand and silt.
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Business leaders have already triggered contingency plans to cope with additional checks on the post-Brexit UK-EU border, which they fear will clog ports, silt up the arteries of trade and dislocate supply chains in Europe and beyond.
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Business leaders are triggering contingency plans to cope with additional checks on the post-Brexit UK-EU border that they fear will clog up ports, silt up the arteries of trade and dislocate supply chains in Europe and beyond.
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Wind bells—cast with molten bronze in silt at an on-site foundry and sold in a gift shop—form the space's primary source of income, along with tours, bell-casting workshops, and extended, weeks-long courses in arcology.
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The dolphins "see" enemy frogmen by sensing sound waves bouncing off the hard calcium deposits in human bones, and can sense mines buried by mud and silt on the seafloor by sensing the air void inside the mine's casing.
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Aside from some silt and an assortment of odd sea creatures, the conditions inside the wreck appear largely unperturbed—a glimpse into the final state of the ship as it was abandoned by its crew over 290 years ago.
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In the Riverside neighborhood, residents piled debris at the curb, and clumps of tree moss and silt traced the high-water mark, blocks away from the river, which was still lapping over the concrete bulkheads meant to contain it.
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That they are Roma is rarely said aloud, but it is written in the details: the very particular Spanish they speak among friends, and the freelance jobs that Isra juggles, salvaging scrap metal and picking seashells out of the silt.
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While disasters happening within your sphere of influence are vivid and bright, with lava flowing down slopes or silt clogging streams, disasters that you hear about but don't witness are represented with sketch-like drawings in the fog of war.
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The government of Jammu and Kashmir state now plans to remove some 2.1 million willows and 20 million cubic meters of silt from the lake in a conservation program starting next month, which it says will also boost eco-tourism.
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"What I have seen with the mines that we have suspended is that the quality of life of the present and future generations have in fact been jeopardised," Lopez said, citing silt buildup in rivers and destroyed farmlands around mining sites.
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When: Opens Wednesday, May 220, 235–228pm Where: L.A. Louver (24 N. Venice Boulevard, Venice, Los Angeles) A decade after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Alison Saar focuses on an earlier Southern tragedy in her upcoming exhibition Silt, Soot and Smut.
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Deprived of silt and fresh water, and sliced by hundreds of miles of deeply dredged shipping channels, the shrinking wetlands are growing less effective as natural barriers to storm surges from hurricanes, putting the area at higher risk of devastation.
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Audemio drove past Miles City that morning on the way to Billings, tracing the braided contours of the Yellowstone River on Interstate 21000, neat plots of alfalfa on one side of the highway, sandstone and silt badlands on the other.
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But the unusual depth of this formation - reaching more than 21.7910 meters (3.17403 ft) - coupled with the Amazon silt clouding the waters, delayed that confirmation until just five years ago, just as the government was putting drilling leases out for tender.
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There's the sound of what might be dulled metal grating against silt, the soft thumps of footsteps on a hollow floor or the hull of a boat, and wood cracking — which feels ominous, as the boat dips into the ocean.
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He told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that the storm's impact was aggravated by nearby construction projects that had caused silt to build up, as well as improper debris disposal from a road works project that caused a river to rise higher than normal.
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A Republican lawmaker on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee said Thursday that rocks from the White Cliffs of Dover and the California coastline, as well as silt from rivers tumbling into the ocean, are contributing to high sea levels globally. Rep.
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This technical derring-do also involved an ecological mitzvah: 450,000 cubic yards of river silt formed the park's "hills" as well as an expanse of lawn planted with cedar and ginkgo trees that may become the Tulsa equivalent of Central Park's Great Lawn.
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Many commercial species, such as flathead, snapper, prawns and types of shellfish, begin their life cycles in coastal lakes and beds of seagrass or seaweed which are likely to be negatively affected by the slurry of ash and silt coming their way.
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Sure, but right now I'm young, and, when I get a late-night text from Liam or Cody or any of those crabs I partied with last summer in the silt near Provincetown, I'm there, especially if someone else brings the melted butter.
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That also assumes the agency is permitted to carry out a more ambitious and controversial sort of marsh-regeneration project, by carving floodgates into the Mississippi's levees and, at times when the river's sediment load is high, opening them to inundate the silt-starved plain.
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"The timing of removal is dependant on the tides, however, at this stage we estimate that the removal of the device from location will be completed by tomorrow morning," police said in a statement, adding the shell was lying in a bed of dense silt.
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"They blame the carp for the decline of waterfowl production, which is now only 10 percent of the original production," notes Herman, referring to the invasion of non-native carp that now stirs up silt in local waterways, affecting the growth of aquatic plants.
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Bangladesh has plans to move at least 230,000 refugees to a small, uninhabited silt island in the Bay of Bengal — an island that didn't emerge from the ocean until several decades ago, and on which the Rohingya would have few, if any, livelihood options.
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The nature of the future relationship with the world's biggest trading bloc remains unclear and there is deep concern in boardrooms about the prospect of Britain crashing out of the bloc without a deal, or with a deal that would silt up the arteries of trade.
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It has occurred to me that perhaps TechCrunch pays insufficient attention to slurry, sediment, silt, sludge, mud, and muck; to canals, earthworks, levees, dikes, dredges, and the Army Corps of Engineers; to the vast engineering works, with lifespans measured in decades, that literally reshape our world.
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First, the raw cacao beans are sifted and sorted by hand, to remove dust, silt, bean fragments, shell pieces, damaged beans, beans that are stuck together, germinated beans that didn't ferment soon enough after harvest, flat beans, beans that are too small, and leaves and twigs.
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The stakes are particularly high for Louisiana, which has lost about 0003,000 square miles of land over the last century because of Mississippi River levees that block silt from reaching its swamps, the oil industry's carving of canals through the marshes, and sea level rise from climate change.
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Whether it's comprised of a blend of sand, clay, and silt (as is the case for the "dirt" track at Santa Anita) or wax-coated synthetic material or turf, bad footing can result in catastrophic injury that ends a horse's career or even requires it to be put down.
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"The ecology of Indawgyi Lake has been severely impacted by silt and mercury pollution from mining and overfishing, so much that it's become hard for the local fishers to make a living," said Oliver Springate-Baginski, a professor at the University of East Anglia who has led an environmental survey of the area.
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