siltation

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siltation

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From silt + -ation.

noun siltations

uncountable, usually The (typically undesirable) increase in concentration and or of deposition of water-borne silt in a body of water. 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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@misc{siltation_2026,
  title = {siltation},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/siltation},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}