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Turbidity in rivers is caused by the flowing water picking up sediment, which muddies the water.
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What causes turbidity in lagoons What is the reliability of turbidity data?
turbidity is pollution, thus runoffs and fertilizer and anything that makes up pollution is turbidity.
What causes turbidity currents?
Turbidity currents are caused by sand and mud on the continental shelf and slope that is dislodged and thrown into suspension. Turbidity currents themselves are downslope movements of dense, sediment-laden water. Source: I'm in a college level geology course.
What has the author Daniel H Stern written?
Daniel H. Stern has written: 'Effects of bank stabilization on the physical and chemical characteristics of streams and small rivers' -- subject(s): Erosion, Rivers, Stream channelization, Streambank planting, Turbidity
How can you check turbidity in pure vacuum dried salt?
A dried salt has not turbidity.
What is the turbidity NTU?
The turbidity NTU standards should be less than 5
What causes a mountain to change?
RIVERS
What causes turbidity to be high?
Turbidity is particulate matter in a liquid that occludes transparency, which can happen anywhere from in your cup of wine, to in your local reservoir. In both cases, it's caused by stirring things up too much. Let your wine sit in one place for as long as possible before decanting, and do it tenderly. Turbidity in the water supply happens during flood, and there is not much to be done about that.
How does water flow affect turbidity?
i have tested the to doing charts and graphs and when stream flow is fast the turbidity raises and and when the stream flow decreases so does the turbidity
Does adding more lime slurry drop the pH or turbidity?
The pH and turbidity increases.
What is an abiotic that affects a fresh water ecosystem?
temperature, current, and turbidity A+temperature, current, and turbidity
Turbidity current density results from water mixing with what substance?
Turbidity refers to the cloudiness or haziness of a fluid. Turbidity current density results from water mixing with sediment particles.
How sediments on the ocean floor vary relation to an ocean ridge?
The transport of sediment depends on its grain size and the original location where it was produced. Terrigenous sediment can be transported to the deep sea via rivers or by wind. Material transported by rivers most commonly ends up deposited on thecontinental margin, the shallow portions of the ocean that are within several hundred kilometers of land. When continental margin deposits accumulate fast and get overly steep, or when an earthquake or storm causes the sediment to be resuspended, turbidity currents provide additional transport out to the deep sea. The resuspension of the sediment into the bottom water causes it to be more dense than the overlying water, and thus these turbidity currents flow downslope to the more distant ocean basin -humberto <3
