WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Silt is a solid, dust-like sediment that water, ice, and wind transport and deposit. Silt is made up of rock and mineral particles that are larger than clay but smaller than sand.

Detailed explanation-2: -A clast is a fragment of geological detritus, chunks and smaller grains of rock broken off other rocks by physical weathering and clastic rocks are composed of fragments (clasts) of pre-existing minerals and rock.

Detailed explanation-3: -Silt, which is known to have much smaller particles compared to sandy soil and is made up of rock and other mineral particles, which are smaller than sand and larger than clay.

Detailed explanation-4: -Silt is sometimes known as rock flour or glacier meal, especially when produced by glacial action. Silt suspended in water draining from glaciers is sometimes known as rock milk or moonmilk.