By Sylvia J. Czerkas, Everett C. Olson
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The resuspension lag introduced in this way is more important than the settling lag for initial concentrations as low as lOOmgl" 1 . From initial concentrations of 30mgl~ 1 , over lOOmgl" 1 to lOOOmgl" 1 , it increases from 5% over 11% to 38% of the total netlag effect. (7) The net-lag effect increases with temperature for all grain sizes, mainly because of the raised settling velocity but also because the critical bed shear-stress for deposition increases with viscosity and thus decreases with temperature.
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