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Fine-grain marine sediments consist predominantly of silt and clay of various mineralogical compositions. In almost all natural water environments these sediments flocculate as a result of their net surface physicochemical forces. In a flow field the basic settling and eroding unit is the floe rather than the individual particle. Floes constitute the primary or first-order agglomeration of fine particles formed by random collision and attachment. The same process may generate second- and third-order agglomerations, or floe aggregates, ultimately forming a continuous aggregate network (Krone, 1963; Partheniades, 1965, 1986a, b, c).
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Partheniades, E. (1991). Effect of Bed Shear Stresses on the Deposition and Strength of Deposited Cohesive Muds. In: Bennett, R.H., et al. Microstructure of Fine-Grained Sediments. Frontiers in Sedimentary Geology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4428-8_18
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