# Turbidity and seagrass

| Figure 13 : Aerial view of part of mangrove-fringed Hinchinbrook Channel, Australia.
| Anim 15 : Fly-by through the bathymetry of Hinchinbrook Channel, Australia. The channel is serveral km wide, crisscrossed by shoals and channels a few metres deep, and is fringed by mangroves (shown in green).
| Anim 16 : Animation of the tidal currents in Hinchinbrook Channel and the fringing managroves.
| Anim 17 : Animation of the depth-averaged suspended sediment concentration in Hinchinbrook Channel during spring tides and no wind. Note the patchiness of the distribution and that the concentration peaks at 1,000 ppm.
| Anim 18 : Animation of the depth-averaged suspended sediment concentration in Hinchinbrook Channel during spring tides and southeasterly trade winds. Note the patchiness of the distribution and that the concentration peaks at 5,000 ppm, ie these patches are extremely muddy.

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