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Siltation - What does it mean?

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siltation

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The (typically undesirable) increase in concentration and or of deposition of water-borne silt in a body of water.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 20, author=Somini Sengupta, title=In Silt, Bangladesh Sees Potential Shield Against Sea Level Rise, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=They are also heavily engineered upstream: a dam built upstream in neighboring India can critically stanch the flow of freshwater down here, increasingly the chances of salinity and siltation . }}

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    *(Siltation)

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