Siltation
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The (typically undesirable) increase in concentration and or of deposition of water-borne silt in a body of water. uncountable, usually
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From silt + -ation.
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