Fluid Mud

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Silt deposit in the Weser estuary. Solidified fluid mud is also called silt.

Fluid mud , sometimes also liquid silt , is the name given to non-solidified biogenic or clastic sediment deposits that form in the turbid zones of estuaries during or shortly after still water and are completely or largely resuspended again in ebb or flow currents .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schrottke, K., Becker, M., Bartholomä, A., Burghard W. Flemming, BW & Hebbeln, D. (2006): Fluid mud dynamics in the Weser estuary turbidity zone tracked by high-resolution side-scan sonar and parametric sub-bottom profiler. Geo-Marine Letters, 26 (3): 185-198.