Ramsey had actually gone, Savich with him, just to be sure, just to see the man before he was reduced to gray silt.

Pitt applied extra power to the vertical sters, bringing the submersible to a hovering stop three meters above the gray silt.

The Christmas flood of 1964 added large quantities of grey silt on top of the channel sediments, reducing the depth, changing the flora and further reducing fish habitat.

Through the porthole, they began to make out the nod-ule field, black potatoes resting in the fine gray silt.

Water opaque with gray glacial silt roared downstream at the base of the cliff on which they stood.

It looked like a lumpy blanket of gray silt.

Water drained between the patches of weed, carving runnels in the grey silt.

The grave was just a mound of rocks the length of a man, covered with grey silt.

The cloth was dark, with rich gray silt because the boy had caught himself on his arms when he landed.

The earth, no longer flat, became a rough sea of grey silt.