Silt

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7-4-190

A natural fine grained sediment consisting of granular and mainly siliceous products of rock weathering.


Note: In French a distinction is made between siliceous silt (silt) and organic silt (limon).




Please note that this is the term as it stands in the original IALA Dictionary edition (1970-1989)