Particulate pollutants in the North Sea - mud properties

This report summarises the collective knowledge about the distribution and behaviour of mud in the North Sea from work conducted at Hydraulics Research and from other researchers. The report describes the laboratory tests on a sample of mud collected from Mardson Bay, off the South Shields coast. This site was chosen as it was also the site of the North-East Coast Cohesive Sediment Dynamics Study (NECCSDS). Laboratory tests for uni-directional current erosion and wave erosion are reported. The laboratory results at HR are compared with observed sediment resuspension and deposition in the field.