slough

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-025754",
  "term": "slough",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Soil that falls into a probe hole after a sampling tool or in situ sensor has been withdrawn.\n\n2. A sluggish body of water in a tidal flat, bottomland, or coastal marshland; may also be called bayous or oxbows.\n\n3. A sluggish channel of water (such as a side channel of a river) in which water flows slowly through either low, swampy ground (such as along the Columbia River) or a section of an abandoned river channel (which may contain stagnant water) that occurs in a flood plain or delta.\n\n4. A marshy or reedy pool that contains areas of slightly deeper water and a slow current.",
  "subject": "Water",
  "references": [
    "Underground Storage Tank Sites Guide Glossary",
    "Federal Geographic Data Committee Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard, June 2012 FGDC-STD-018-2012",
    "Federal Land Management in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/slough/"
}