Examples of silt

• The basal parallel-bedded sands and silts of this unit contain abundant but fragmentary carbon compressions and poorly preserved compressed coniferous branches.

• The upper half is more heterogeneous and consists of an irregular alternation of clays, silts and finer sands.

• Thickness of individual silt beds increases towards the top, while representation of clayey silt layers decreases.

• Modification of silt microstructure by hydrocarbon contamination in freezing ground.

• The soil texture is silty clay loam with 29, 47, and 24% sand, silt and clay respectively, and illite is the dominant clay mineral.

• Conformably overlying the sandstones are approximately 5 m of beige-brown to olive green weathering sands and silts.

• In medium-textured soils, such as silts, the conditions discussed above are satisfied.

• The soil texture is 46 % sand, 46 % clay and 8 % silt.