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National Water-Quality Assessment data warehouse Data warehouse for national water quality program with links to chemical, biological, and physical data for water, sediment and animal tissues, nutrient, pesticide, and VOC levels, stream flow, and ground water levels from national study units. (Score: 1.380)

Surface water information pages Lead page for detailed United States surface water information with links to real-time and historic streamflow data, suspended sediment data, USGS programs and facilities, publications, techniques, and featured news releases. (Score: 1.380)

Suspended-sediment database: daily values of suspended sediment and ancillary data Enables searching by state, hydrologic region, basin, time period, and length of record to retrieve suspended sediment data for the United States. (Score: 0.690)

Water science for schools: common water measurements Explanation of common water properties including temperature, pH, specific conductance, turbidity, dissolved oxygen, hardness and suspended sediment for students and general public. (Score: 0.690)

Water science for schools: water properties Educational site for elementary school students on the properties of water with links to a true/false quiz, common water measurements, pH, and random link. (Score: 0.690)

Atchafalaya & Mississippi River Deltas study: a tale of two deltas Project of the Gulf of Mexico Integrated Science program that evaluates the transport and sedimentation of contaminates through the Mississippi River and Atchafalaya River delta to the near-shore Gulf of Mexico. Includes aerial photographs. (Score: 0.571)

Chesapeake Bay River Input Monitoring Loads and long-term trends (Score: 0.475)

Toxicity and bioavailability of metals in the Missouri River adjacent to a lead refinery Report(PDF format)on an evaluation of the potential environmental impacts of contaminated groundwater from a metals refinery adjacent to the Missouri River in Omaha, Nebraska testing water and sediments for contaminants and toxicity. (Score: 0.458)

Summary of suspended-sediment concentration data, San Francisco Bay, California, water year 2000 Suspended-sediment concentration data were collected in San Francisco Bay during water year 2000 using optical backscatterance sensors and water samples. This report presents the data-collection methods, data, and calibration plots. (Score: 0.367)

Geomorphology and sediment transport -- river mechanics Current river mechanics research on particle friction angles of fluvial gravels (data files compressed in BenHex,Winzip and Unix) and Grand Canyon Beach evolution (animation requiring Java 1.0) plus digital elevation files (.hgx and .zip files). (Score: 0.346)

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About suspended material (water):

Definition: Material such as clay, silt and sand that is supported and carried by the water and not in contact with the bottom of the water body. [Adapted from Glossary of Geology, 4th ed.]