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An Illustration of the Amount of Silt
which may be Carried by Water.
After heavy rain, silt-laden,
muddy flood water
pours into a pond (rear) and then exits (front). |
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The same pond after a catastrophic
flooding event.
So much silt has been left by the flood water, that most of the pond
has been completely filled up with sediment. |
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To retain this area as a pond, most of the deposited
silt had to be removed.
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If the
sediment had been left, succession would rapidly have taken place.
Marsh plants would have colonized the newly deposited
substrate and succession would have continued from this point. |
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