Oceanography The Official Magazine of
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Volume 17 Issue 02

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Volume 17, No. 2
Pages 79 - 79

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BOX • Bottom Nepheloid Layer

By Yogesh Agrawal 
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Quite like the dust layer that establishes itself over land under a strong wind, a particle-rich nepheloid layer typically exists on the ocean floor. The dynamics of this layer constitute the area of research called bottom boundary layers and sediment transport.

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Agrawal, Y. 2004. Science box: Bottom nepheloid layer. Oceanography 17(2):79, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2004.51.

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