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"In just a few years, the silting up of the bay has been stopped and we have restored the possibility of an island," Macron said.

From Reuters • Jun. 5, 2023

Geographers had already noticed that rivers tend to avulse at the foot of mountains, where slopes change dramatically and sediment settles out, silting up the bed.

From Science Magazine • May 13, 2021

Thanks to silting and reclamation in the tidal Liffey, Usher’s Island itself has for centuries been joined to the mainland.

From New York Times • May 11, 2021

One mile down the hill, the road crosses the Anacostia River, forever altered by two centuries of silting and an enormous Army Corps of Engineers flood-control project.

From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2012

Yes, everything was once water, but the Earth formed out of the oceans by a natural process—similar, he thought, to the silting he had observed at the delta of the Nile.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan