Photo of sediment trapping mineral and organic in flood plain

Figure 2 from USGS Science Summary Vegetation traps nutrients and sediment in the flood plain of an urban stream in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Sediment trapping, both mineral and organic, in vegetation on the hydrologically connected part of the naturally vegetated flood plain of Difficult Run, Virginia, 2008. Photograph by Lauren McPhillips, U.S. Geological Survey.