siltation

Noun.  The (typically undesirable) increase in concentration and or of deposition of water-borne silt in a body of water.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.