The Greytown region is famous for it's rich river silt soils.

Our turf is grown on a heavy silt soil, which is quite well drained.

During the Roman period, water levels fell once again, and settlements were possible on the new silt soils deposited near the coast.

Tests confirm that the site was first cleared for construction by burning and quickly covered with a layer of fine silt soil.

Predominantly clay and silt soil, fine- grained particles, that sticks together whether wet or dry.

The hilly area north of the mountains to the river contains more than 1,000 river valleys with silt soil .

Grown on rich river silt soils and red brown earth over limestone, in a Mediterranean climate with cropping levels less than four tonnes per hectare.

Owing to their clay and silt soils, the alluvial plains are extremely fertile and therefore densely populated.

It tolerates poor soils and acid conditions, but prefers silt or sandy silt soils.

He sat back on his heels and dug away silting soil that half-covered it, and his nails rang little, metallic sounds against its rim.

The Pays de France is a plain which has traditionally had a prosperous agricultural economy (particularly cereal crops and sugar beets) based on its fertile silt soils.

Both birch and pine provided the most root reinforcement in coarse-textured soil and the least reinforcement in medium-textured silt soil.

Clay and silt soils have higher carbon stocks than sandy soils, and show a greater and more prolonged response to carbon sequestration measures such as afforestation.

Among other things, he was the first person to identify and correlate Willamette silt soil in 1953 with soils at the former lakebed of Lake Lewis in Eastern Washington.

SILT SOILS Silt particles are approximately 25 times larger than clay, making a silt soil much less water retentive.

Research on heaving pressures associated with the formation of ice lenses in soils indicates that the magnitude of the heaving pressure in silt soils is governed by the geometry of the ice-water interface.

Removal of silt soil from the Ketelmeer lake also aims to deepen the channel leading to the mouth of the IJssel (to at least a depth of 3.5m), thus aiming to improve access to the river for navigation.

Though these lands were lower than the peat fens before the peat shrinkage began, the more stable silt soils were reclaimed by medieval farmers and embanked against any floods coming down from the peat areas or from the sea.

It is located at the juncture between the mountain ranges in the east and the Cape Flats lowlands, and has a unique geology influenced by the underground flow of water from the mountains and the presence of a special kind of silt soil.

Vertical uplift of seedlings and rods on the soil surface and at a depth of 5 cm, and of reference trees, was monitored using a theodolite from autumn to spring in two adjacent field experiments on a silt soil in northern Sweden.

Geologists have come to refer to the resulting lake as Lake Allison, named for Oregon State University geologist Ira S. Allison, who first described Willamette Silt soil in 1953 and noted its similarity to soils on the floor of former Lake Lewis in Eastern Washington.

It grows best on well drained, but moist, silty soil.

Thus, high specific surface is a major reason why silty soils tend to be relatively fertile.

You can protect sandy and light silty soils by taking the following measures:

It is one of the few crops the wet, silty soil in a place like Gueydan can support.

The black, silty soil is ideal for growing vegetables, fruit and rose bushes which the local rural economy depends upon.

The abundance of water and the rich, silty soils support plant growth and provide breeding habitat for insects.

Deeper calcareous or non-calcareous fine silty soils occur in the dry valleys.

• surface texture of the soil (silty soils were selected as the most vulnerable)

The site was dominated by big sagebrush, had silty soils and an abundance of harvester ants.

The field vane test is usually used to measure the strength of clays, but it may also be applied to measurements in silty soils.

The silty soil preferred by the willow is scarce as both streams are actively eroding their channels.

I calculate that a cubic foot of silty soil offers about 30,000 square feet of surface area to plant roots.

Clay soils, composed of very fine particles, have a much higher affinity for water than silty soils.

The species grows on sandy and silty soils of river bottoms and floodplains.

Loess is the name for the silty soil that windstorms have deposited on the plateau over the ages.

The data from the triaxial tests were used in the development of a critical state framework for overconsolidated unsaturated silty soil.

Soils to the eastern part of the area are slowly permeable clayey and fine silty soils.

They are cheap to produce and easy to lay, with factory controlled properties that ensure long term filtration performance even in fine silty soil conditions.

Clayey or silty soils under monoculture corn production are particularly susceptible (Topp et al. 1995).

Behind us lay bleak fenland with its fertile silty soil which, since the Roman times, has been reclaimed by degrees for agriculture.

Yellow-faced pocket gophers usually inhabit deep sandy or silty soils that are relatively free from rocks.

A saturated silty soil sample is centrifuged in a geotechnical centrifuge to create an unsaturated state.

After harvest, you should consider rough ploughing to stop capping and slumping of sandy and silty soils.

With shallow cultivation, take care to prevent soil compaction near the surface, and regularly loosen sandy and silty soils.

In silty soil where Big Sagebrush flourishes, Efferia benedicti is common.