... blocks of eight flats. The compressibility and consolidation characteristics of the peat deposit were determined from a series of single increment vertical consolidation tests on 250 mm dia. by 80 mm thick undisturbed samples, the increments being maintained for up to 18 months to define the long-term...

... to which suspended load settlesout in the low-water channel, as opposed to the mud-flat area, and how it is subsequently removed. Undisturbed cores from the bed were collected at different sites, throughout the running of spring and neap tides and suspended-load sampleswere collected at the sametime...