Deep-sea Mining Sediment Tracking: The use of tracer technology to measure and further understand seabed disturbance and suspended sediment plumes - German licence area of CCZ

The CCZ based study suggest that tracer particles were seen at the sampling limits of the study site. The study found that fine suspended sediment can be transported further and faster than modelling indicates. It is also likely that models under-estimate the transport due to assumptions made on resuspension, flocculation, settling and deposition processes.