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Silt, technically, is a name given to a range of particle size. It is usually considered to be material between 2 micrometers (microns) and 20 micrometers (although the upper limit is given in othe classification schemes as 50 or 63 micrometers). Silt sized material can occur in soils as well as rivers or deltas or in the deep sea. It is larger than clay-sized material but smaller than sand. Silt can be produced in a number of ways: weathering of rocks, grinding by glaciers, aeolian abrasion as well as water erosion of rocks on the sides or beds of rivers. Silt is easily transported in water or air and is fine enough to be carried long distances by air as 'dust'. Thick deposits of silty material resulting from aeolian deposition are often called loess (a German term) or limon (French). [Brian Whalley, Queen's University of Belfast; b.whalley@qub.ac.uk]

[edit] "Doug" reference

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On the Nickelodeon animated series Doug, the title character was required to write a report on silt, but was distracted by a video game he had recently acquired. He wrote nothing more than "Silt is..." for most of the episode.

I'd just as soon leave it out, as I don't see how this expands knowledge of silt. I notice that the "Doug" article doesn't have a link to silt, so silt doesn't seem to be a particularly important aspect of that cartoon. What do others think? What is the argument for having this in the article? Wondering, -- Infrogmation 22:49, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Removed again. Irrelevant nonsense. Vsmith 01:20, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

The episode helped raise silt awareness more than any other childrens' cartoon of the time. --NEMT 01:36, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Then explain how it raised silt awareness, what facts about silt it explained and what the result of this raised silt awareness was. We've had at least 3 editors who who thinks this doesn't belong in the article. Giver a justification of it, or let it go. -- Infrogmation 21:45, 9 August 2006 (UTC)