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Silt vs Siltstone - What's the difference?

silt | siltstone |

As nouns the difference between silt and siltstone

is that silt is mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water while siltstone is a sedimentary rock whose composition is intermediate in grain size between the coarser sandstone and the finer mudstone.

As a verb silt

is to clog or fill with silt.

silt

English

Noun

  • Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
  • Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport.
  • (geology) A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale

    • See also

    * alluvium * varve

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To clog or fill with silt.
  • To become clogged with silt.
  • To flow through crevices; to percolate.

    • Derived terms

    * silt up

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    siltstone

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia siltstone) (siltstones)
  • A sedimentary rock whose composition is intermediate in grain size between the coarser sandstone and the finer mudstone.