silt

Flowing water covers them in thin blankets of silt.

His careful movements through the delicate layer of silt and algae at the lake’s bottom ensured a clear view.

Domestic items were deposited into the river silt after the settlement caught fire, where they remained until they were excavated eight years ago.

Typically this happens in places where the ground is made of loose sand or silt and filled with groundwater — such as near rivers, like the one a few hundred feet from Men’s Central.

There is evidence that the site was a river and the fossils became trapped in the silt and rocks on the river bed.