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Large amounts of sediment are moved in suspension in water — in rivers and estuaries, for example — and then deposited onto the bed as the available energy reduces. An understanding of the settling behaviour and subsequent consolidation of the sediment is important for the analysis of siltation and dredging problems and for the disposal of slurried waste.
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Sills, G.C., Thomas, R.C. (1984). Settlement and Consolidation in the Laboratory of Steadily-deposited Sediment. In: Denness, B. (eds) Seabed Mechanics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4958-4_5
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