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Deposition of Fine-grained Sediment from Tidal Currents

Nature volume 224, pages 1288–1289 (1969)Cite this article

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A NUMBER of authors have invoked settling at slack tide as the mechanism for deposition of fine sediment from tidal currents1–3. It seems however, that in most cases the time available at slack tide is inadequate to allow deposition of more than a fraction of a millimetre of sediment The mechanism, particularly away from the coast, where sediment concentration is low, must be more or less continuous.

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MCCAVE, I. Deposition of Fine-grained Sediment from Tidal Currents. Nature 224, 1288–1289 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2241288a0

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