Modifies a noun

• loam: The principle crop on his 450 acres of mainly silty, heavy loam is 320 acres of winter wheat.

• backfill: This feature measured up to 0.16m in width x 0.21m in depth with a brown silty clay backfill.

• clay: These flat stones were recorded within a matrix of very mixed brown silty clay.

• sand: First, a partially burnt reddish silty sand containing charcoal fragments appears to have been thrown into the base of the pit.

• soil: The sandstone plateau around the hills gives rise to red, silty, loam soils over silty clays.

• layer: The silty layer was removed revealing another demolition layer.

Modifying Another Word

• very: She still lies exactly as she sank, upright and mainly intact, but, like all the harbor wrecks, very silty.

• slightly: This material is course slightly silty sand, containing a high proportion of shells.

• quite: The down side is that the area around Lyme Bay is quite silty.

• fairly: We did a long dive, but there was nothing much to see, and the water was fairly silty.

• too: The clay samples form the other four locations can be regarded as too silty.