Silt, Sand, Slurry, Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making
Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making
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Sediment is an unseen infrastructure that shapes and enables modern life.
Silt is scooped from sea floors to deepen underwater highways for container ships.
It is diverted from river basins to control flooding.
It is collected, sorted, managed, and moved to reshape deltas, marshes, and beaches.
Anthropogenic action now moves more sediment annually than ‘natural’ geologic processes — yet this global reshaping of the earth’s surface is rarely-discussed and poorly-understood.
Silt is scooped from sea floors to deepen underwater highways for container ships.
It is diverted from river basins to control flooding.
It is collected, sorted, managed, and moved to reshape deltas, marshes, and beaches.
Anthropogenic action now moves more sediment annually than ‘natural’ geologic processes — yet this global reshaping of the earth’s surface is rarely-discussed and poorly-understood.
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Kelvin Vu
Rob Holmes
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Rob Holmes et. al., "Silt Sand Slurry: Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making" (Applied Research & Design, 2023)
