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Illustration of a ghost forest, which can be caused by sea-level rise, land subsidence, or both. As land subsides along the coast, trees can drown in saturated soils, creating ghost forests. Salt-water intrusion into groundwater can also cause salt-intolerant trees to die.
Climate change: ghost forest
Top view of a mining truck
Petroleum industry: mining truck
Illustration showing sediment inputs.
Inputs: nutrients 2
Illustration showing sediment inputs.
Inputs: sediments 2
Cover crops (bright green) near Rock Hall
Cover Crops
Three layers of sediment plumes in the Chesapeake Bay north of the Bay Bridge.
Sediment plumes
Dredging the Champlain Canal, upper Hudson River, NY, to remove PCBs from the riverbed sediment is the one of the largest environmental dredging projects ever undertaken in the U.S.
Bulldozer with bucket unloads dredge spoils into…
Conceptual diagram illustrating how shallow wells draw from unconfined weathered bedrock and deep wells from bedrock aquifers.
Shallow vs. Deep well
Illustration of flux tower
Flux tower
May 2005, Tred Avon River, Easton, MD
Phragmite marsh and bank erosion of streamside…
Illustration of hill with geologic layers
Hill 3D: with geologic layers
Illustration of simple plains base with soil layers
Plain 3D: simple with soil layers
Illustration of groundwater extraction and compression process
Groundwater extraction and compression
Illustration of simple plains base
Plain 3D: simple
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Spade

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