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Chapter 11

Surface Sediment Sampling and Measurement

HOMEWORK #2 IS DUE TODAY AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS

Outline:

  • Surface sediment sampling methods
    • Basic properties of sediment
    • Where and how much to sample
    • Different methods for sampling sediment
  • Surface sediment flux measurement methods
    • Erosion
    • Deposition

Textbook reading:

  • Pages 101-105 of Chapter 7

Other reading:

  • "Techniques for the measurement of surface-water erosion processes on slopes". In Chapter 4 of Goudie, A. et al. 1990. Geomorphological Techniques, 2nd edition Unwin Hyman Ltd., London, UK. p. 251-256.
  • Here are some useful references:
    • 1) Kondolf, G. M. and Li, S. 1992. The pebble count technique for quantifying surface bed material size in instream flow studies. Rivers 3:2:80-87.
    • 2) Marcus, W. A., Ladd, S. C., Stoughton, J. A., Stock, J. A. 1995. Pebble counts and the role of user-dependent bias in documenting sediment size distributions. Water Resources Research 31:10:2625-2631.
    • 3) Murdroch, A. and Azcue, J. M. 1995. Manual of aquatic sediment sampling. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL, 219pp.

Related web links:

  • Lake and river bed sediment samplers
  • Sedimentation-Erosion Table (SET)

Video Podcast: Surface Sediment Sampling and Measurement, Part 1

This 34-minute presentation explains some of the basic properties of sediment as well as how and where to collect sediment samples from terrestrial and aquatic surfaces.

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Video Podcast: Surface Sediment Sampling and Measurement, Part 2

This 29-minute presentation presents numerous methods for measuring erosion and deposition in flux units of length, volume, and mass per time.

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