Sediment Plume in Chesapeake Bay

Sediment plume in Chesapeake Bay following Tropical Storm Lee, NASA https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/52169/sediment-clouds-the-chesapeake-bay image from 13 September 2011. Sediment plumes, like the one seen here, form when large amounts of water quickly drain off the land. Eventually the sediment in the water column settles out to the bottom of the water body and gets buried and preserved in the geologic record. The mouth of the Susquehanna denoted by aqua highlighted “S”, the Potomac denoted by “P” and its outlet to the Atlantic Ocean with an “A”. The sediment core from this study was collected at the point labelled “2209”, and the stars identify Washington DC (DC), Richmond (R), and Annapolis (A). Figure adapted from Figure 1D in (Toomey et al. 2019).