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Fine Sediment Dynamics in the Marine Environment, Volume 5 (Hardcover)
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Fine Sediment Dynamics in the Marine Environment, Volume 5 (Hardcover)
Series: Proceedings in Marine Science
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Cohesive sediment, or mud, is encountered in most water bodies
throughout the world. Often mud is a valuable resource, synonymous
with fertile land, enriching the natural environment and used as an
important building material. Yet mud also hinders navigation and
consequently, dredging operations have been carried out since
ancient times to safeguard navigation. Unfortunately, many mud
deposits are now contaminated, endangering the eco-system and
increasing the costs of dredging operations. The transport and fate
of mud in the environment are still poorly understood and the need
for basic research remains. This text contains the proceedings of
the INTERCOH-2000 conference on progress in cohesive sediment
research. It was the sixth in a series of conferences initially
started by Professor Ashish Mehta in 1984 as a "Workshop on
Cohesive Sediment Dynamics with Special Reference to the Processes
in Estuaries". During these conferences the character of the first
workshop has always been maintained, that is, small scale and
dedicated to the physical and engineering aspects of cohesive
sediments, without parallel sessions, but with ample time for
discussions during and after the presentations, and followed by a
book of proceedings containing thoroughly reviewed papers.
INTERCOH-2000 was integrated with the final workshop of the COSINUS
project. This project was carried out as a part of the European
MAST-3 programme, and almost all European cohesive sediment workers
were involved. INTERCOH-2000 focused on the behaviour and modelling
of concentrated benthic suspensions, i.e. high-concentrated
near-bed suspensions of cohesive sediment. Special attention was
paid to: sediment - turbulence interaction; flocculation and
settling velocity; high-concentrated mud suspensions; processes in
the bed - consolidation; processes on the bed - erosion; field
observations on mud dynamics; instrumentation; and numerical
modelling.
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