Mud

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Cohesive Sediments:

  • Particle Size. Silt: 2-63mm. Clay: less than 2mm
  • Ionic charges: Interact electrostatically.
  • Organic material influence sediment properties
  • Strong sediment-fluid interaction (flocculation, turbulence damping etc.)

mud cohesive sediment mechanism