noun: sand, dirt, and very small rocks that are carried from one place to another by moving water
noun: mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake
verb: become chocked with silt
Schauberger
This also explains why the very moment that watercourses were hydraulically[9] regulated, i.e. when the natural system of flow was ruined, the calamity concerning the transport of sediment began.[10] The riverbanks were attacked, the riverbed silted up and the water ejected itself from its dislocated course with elemental ur-force in order to regain its naturalesque form of motion, through which that something is also propagated and deployed to which [The Energy Evolution - Harnessing Free Energy from Nature, The Life-Current in Air and Water]
Rivers that warm up along their course, deposit their sediment, silt up the channel and form deltas, so that instead of the formation of new dry land, marsh and swampland have created. [The Energy Evolution - Harnessing Free Energy from Nature, The Transport of Ore in Double-Spiral-Flow Pipes]
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