  In this paper we consider a mathematical model describing the two-phase
interaction between water and mud in a water canal when the width of the canal
is small compared to its depth. The mud is treated as a non-Netwonian fluid and
the interface between the mud and fluid is allowed to move under the influence
of gravity and surface tension. We reduce the mathematical formulation, for
small boundary and initial data, to a fully nonlocal and nonlinear problem and
prove its local well-posedness by using abstract parabolic theory.
