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RECORD NUMBER: 1048 OF 1341

Main Title Sedimentation in St. Louis Bay, Mississippi.
Author Hoski, Charles M. ;
CORP Author Mississippi State Univ., State College. Water Resources Research Inst.
Year Published 1971
Report Number OWRR-A-042-MISS; 10647,; A-042-MISS(1)
Stock Number PB-201 697
Additional Subjects ( Bays(Topographic features) ; Sedimentation) ; Silicate minerals ; Sands ; Silts ; Clays ; Thickness ; Gravel ; Sediment transport ; Particle size ; Salivity ; Mississippi ; Marine geology ; Estuaries ; St Louis Bay
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NTIS  PB-201 697 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
Sediments now accumulating in St. Louis Bay are detrital silicates with trace amounts of particulate organic matter and shell fragments. Twenty seven percent of the Bay surface sediments are sands, the remainder being sandy silt-clay mixtures. Average grainsize composition, by weight, for 62 Bay sediments is a trace of gravel, 34 percent sand, 30 percent silt and 36 percent clay. Sand is supplied by westward longshore drift from the man-made north shore beach of Mississippi Sound. There may be two sources of sand as evidenced by the common occurrence of angular and well-rounded quartz grains in the same size class. Sand accumulates near the Bay mouth, in places only inches thick, overlying the continental Citronelle Formation. Silt and clay are supplied by the Wolf and Jourdan Rivers and on the flood tide from Mississippi Sound. Salinity of the Bay water, 7 to 8 percent, is sufficient to cause mud flocculation. (Author)