The impact of fluid shear and the suspended sediment concentration on the mud floc size variation in the Dollard estuary, The Netherlands

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 139, Issue , 1998, Pages 187-198

  Van Der Lee, W T B ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; FLOCCULATION; MUD; PARTICLE SIZE; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TURBULENCE;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 0032462282     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.139.01.15     Document Type: Article

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