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Science 6 September 1968:
Vol. 161. no. 3845, pp. 1013 - 1015
DOI: 10.1126/science.161.3845.1013
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Turbidity Maximum of the Northern Chesapeake Bay

J. R. Schubel 1

1 Chesapeake Bay Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218

The turbidity maximum near the head of the Chesapeake Bay is produced primarily by the local resuspension of bottom sediments, and by the estuarine "sediment trap" which is formed in the upper reaches of the estuarine circulation regime by the net nontidal circulation.


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