Parameter: silt

Short Description: silt size fraction Wentworth scale

Short Name: silt

Official Name: silt

External Identifier: skos:exactMatch: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P09/current/SILT/

Description

Silt in the sediment; Proportion of particles in a sediment sample that are in the Wentworth silt size fraction--size between 4 and 63 microns (um)

Parameter Occurences in Datasets (8)

Dataset	PI-Supplied Description	PI-Supplied Name
Hurricane Harvey impacts on biogeochemistry of sediments assessed using samples collected in Mission-Aransas Estuary in south Texas from June 2017 to March 2019	Silt size fraction where grain size is between 4 and 63 microns	Silt
Grain size and radiometric data from multi-core sediments collected Fall 2017 from the R/V Acadiana in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico to assess Hurricane Harvey impacts	Sediment grain size in the sand fraction	Silt
Sediment grain size data collected from a shallow subterranean estuary (STE) in Gloucester Point, Virginia USA, from 2018 to 2019	Percent of sediment sample that is silt	Percent_Silt
Sediment properties collected off the Alabama coast before and after Hurricane Sally, 2020-2021	sample fraction consisting of coarse silt-sized particles	COARSESILTFraction
Sediment properties collected off the Alabama coast before and after Hurricane Sally, 2020-2021	sample fraction consisting of fine silt-sized particles	FINESILTFraction
Sediment properties collected off the Alabama coast before and after Hurricane Sally, 2020-2021	sample fraction consisting of medium silt-sized particles	MEDIUMSILTFraction
Sediment properties collected off the Alabama coast before and after Hurricane Sally, 2020-2021	sample fraction consisting of very coarse silt-sized particles	VCOARSESILTFraction
Sediment properties collected off the Alabama coast before and after Hurricane Sally, 2020-2021	sample fraction consisting of very fine silt-sized particles	VFINESILTFraction