siltation

English

Etymology

silt +‎ -ation

Noun

siltation (usually uncountable, plural siltations)

  1. The (typically undesirable) increase in concentration and or of deposition of water-borne silt in a body of water.
    • 2009 March 20, Somini Sengupta, “In Silt, Bangladesh Sees Potential Shield Against Sea Level Rise”, in New York Times‎:
      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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