Measuring Suspended Sediment

Comprehensive Water Quality and Purification

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 157-204

  Gray, J R ^a   Landers, M N ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydroacoustics; Isokinetic; Laser diffraction; Pressure difference; Sediment; Sediment measurement; Sediment monitoring; Sediment sampling; Suspended sediment; Suspended sediment surrogate; Turbidity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921864849     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-382182-9.00012-8     Document Type: Chapter

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