Sediment and Contaminant Transport in Surface Waters

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CRC Press, Sep 18, 2008 - Science - 416 pages
Contaminated bottom sediments and their negative impacts on water quality are a major problem in surface waters throughout the United States as well as in many other parts of the world. Even after elimination of the primary contaminant sources, these bottom sediments will be a main source of contaminants for many years to come. In order to determin

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Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
1
Chapter 2 General Properties of Sediments
21
Chapter 3 Sediment Erosion
45
Chapter 4 Flocculation Settling Deposition and Consolidation
103
Chapter 5 Hydrodynamic Modeling
175
Chapter 6 Modeling Sediment Transport
215
Chapter 7 The Sorption and Partitioning of Hydrophobic Organic Chemicals
279
Chapter 8 Modeling the Transport and Fate of Hydrophobic Chemicals
313
References
373
Index
389
Back cover
399
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Wilbert Lick

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