I. Principles of Studying Suspended Material and Its Settling Velocities. - Principles of Studying Suspended Materials in Water. - Stokes' Settling and Chemical Reactivity of Suspended Particles in Natural Waters. - II. Principles of Optical Techniques. - Beam Transmissometers for Oceanographic Measurements. - Volume-Scattering Functions in Ocean Waters. - Mie Theory Models of Light Scattering By Ocean Particulates. - Spatial Distribution of the Index of Refraction of Suspended Matter in the Ocean. - Absolute Calibration of a Scatterance Meter. - III. Nearshore Studies. - Effects of Tropical Storm Agnes on the Suspended Solids of the Northern Chesapeake Bay. - Distribution and Transport of Suspended Particulate Matter in Submarine Canyons Off Southern California. - Continuous Light-Scattering Profiles and Suspended Matter Over Nitinat Deep-Sea Fan. - Physical Chemical and Optical Measures of Suspended-Particle Concentrations: Their Intercomparisons and Application to the West African Shelf. - The Distribution of Particulate Matter in a Northwest African Coastal Upwelling Area. - The Suspended Material of the Amazon Shelf and Tropical Atlantic Ocean. - IV. Offshore Studies. - Turbidity Distribution in the Deep Waters of the Western Atlantic Trough. - Variations in Benthic Boundary Layer Phenomena: Nepheloid Layer in the North American Basin. - Distribution of Suspended Particles in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean. - Suspended Matter and the Stability of the Water Column: Central Caribbean Sea. - Light-Scattering Measurements and Chemical Analysis of Suspended Matter in the Near-Bottom Nepheloid Layer of the Gulf of Mexico. - Light Scattering and Suspended Particulate Matter on a Transect of the Atlantic Ocean at 11N. - List of Contributors and Participants. Language: English