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    a turbidity reading), a correlation between turbidity and total suspended solids (TSS) is somewhat unusual for each location or situation. Turbidity in...
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  • Look up turbid in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Turbid may refer to: Turbidity, cloudiness in a liquid Turbid Creek (Alaska), a stream in Alaska, US...
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    the water column. The sedimentary deposit of a turbidity current is called a turbidite. Seafloor turbidity currents are often the result of sediment-laden...
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    resulting in an apparent high turbidity because the bottom reflects much band 1 light. For areas with consistently high turbidity signals, particularly areas...
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    calibration and reproducibility. The unit is called Formazin Turbidity Unit (FTU). Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NTU) specified by United States Environmental...
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  • is an ISO standard for water quality that enables the determination of turbidity. The ISO 7027 technique is used to determine the concentration of suspended...
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    water has a turbidity of one FTU. In the United States environmental monitoring the turbidity standard unit is called Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NTU)...
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  • Turbid Creek is a stream in North Slope Borough, Alaska, in the United States. It is a tributary of the Kukpowruk River. Turbid Creek was so named in...
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  • Raw water (section Turbidity)
    problems. Turbidity is how murky or hazy water seems due to suspended particles. The more suspended particles, the higher the turbidity. Turbidity is used...
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    enters the Congo deep-sea fan and extends for an additional 220 km. The turbidity currents found in Congo Canyon are the strongest measured in the world...
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  • An estuarine turbidity maximum, or ETM, is the zone of highest turbidity resulting from turbulent resuspension of sediment and flocculation of particulate...
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    disk 30 cm (12 in) in diameter used to measure water transparency or turbidity in bodies of water. The disc is mounted on a pole or line and lowered...
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  • Turbid Creek may refer to: Turbid Creek (Alaska) Turbid Creek (British Columbia) This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations...
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    microbiology, McFarland standards are used as a reference to adjust the turbidity of bacterial suspensions so that the number of bacteria will be within...
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  • to estimate TSS from more frequently made turbidity measurements, saving time and effort. Because turbidity readings are somewhat dependent on particle...
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    vegetation. Turbidity is a measure of the cloudiness of water based on light scattering by particles at a 90-degree angle to the detector. A turbidity sensor...
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    high-density turbidity currents". Journal of Sedimentology, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists: v. 52, p. 279-297. Turbidites Turbidity currents...
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  • Turbid Lake is a lake in Park County, Wyoming, in the United States. Turbid Lake was so named on account of its muddy water. The lake is believed to have...
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    Results for turbidity reductions vary depending on the turbidity of the influent water. Turbid water contains sand, silt and clay. Feed turbidity in one study...
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    structures associated with large-scale sediment deposition and formed by turbidity currents. They can be thought of as an underwater version of alluvial...
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    sediment-laden water that move rapidly downslope as turbidity currents. Where erosion by turbidity currents creates oversteepened slopes it can also trigger...
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  • Turbidimetry (the name being derived from turbidity) is the process of measuring the loss of intensity of transmitted light due to the scattering effect...
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    submarine canyons serve as channels for the flow of turbidity currents across the seafloor. Turbidity currents are flows of dense, sediment laden waters...
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    matrix within the flow. Turbidity current – Grains are suspended by fluid turbulence within the flow. Because the behavior of turbidity currents is largely...
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  • so unique that it warrants its own current type. This is the turbidity current. Turbidity current is caused when the density of water is increased by sediment...
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    instrument characteristics. Turbidity is measured in nephelometer units referenced to a turbidity standard or in Formazin Turbidity Units. Nephelometers measure...
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    Turbid Creek is a stream in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, flowing southwest into the Squamish River. "Turbid Creek". BC Geographical Names. 50°04′16″N...
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    turbulence. They are particle-laden gravity currents and closely related to turbidity currents, pyroclastic flows from volcanoes and dust storms in the desert...
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  • lab studies. Fibrillogenesis can be analyzed through the use of turbidity tests. Turbidity is way of measuring the haziness, cloudiness, or fogginess of...
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    A turbidite is the geologic deposit of a turbidity current, which is a type of amalgamation of fluidal and sediment gravity flow responsible for distributing...
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