Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-387) and index.

Introduction -- General properties of sediments -- Sediment erosion -- Flocculation, settling, deposition, and consolidation -- Hydrodynamic modeling -- Modeling sediment transport -- The sorption and partitioning of hydrophobic organic chemicals -- Modeling the transport and fate of hydrophobic chemicals. "Sediment and contaminant transport is an enormously rich and complex field that involves physical, chemical, and biological processes as well as the mathematical modeling of these processes. While many books have been written on these broad topics, this book takes a more focused approach, highlighting areas that have been recently investigated but not covered thoroughly elsewhere."--Jacket.