Silt Silt can be visually observed with a hand lens, exhibiting a sparkly appearance. It also can be felt by the tongue as granular when placed on the front teeth (even when mixed with clay particles). Silt is created by a variety of physical processes capable of splitting the generally sand-sized quartz crystals of primary rocks by exploiting deficiencies in their lattice. These involve chemical weathering of rock and regolith, and a number of physical weathering processes such as frost shattering and haloclasty. The main process is abrasion through transport, including fluvial comminution, aeolian attrition and glacial grinding. It is in
Granular Inc. data for 2,500 U.S. counties across 48 states and digital national plat maps. Granular Inc. Granular Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that develops and markets farm management software. The company's software allows farmers to manage operational and financial data on a single cloud and mobile platform. As of 2016, Granular raised $25 million in venture funding and acquired the farm valuation platform AcreValue. Granular is a spinoff of the company Solum, which was founded in 2009. In 2014, Monsanto acquired half of the business, which focused on soil testing and was merged with Climate Corp. The remaining half of