Nile Delta: extreme case of sediment entrapment on a delta plain and consequent coastal land loss

Marine Geology

Volumn 129, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 189-195

  Stanley, D J ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACT; COASTAL EROSION; DAM; DELTA PLAIN; ENTRAPMENT; IRRIGATION CHANNEL; SEDIMENT ENTRAPMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

EGYPT; NILE DELTA;

COASTS; DELTAS; ENTRAPMENT; EROSION; NILE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

EID: 0029657545     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0025-3227(96)83344-5     Document Type: Article

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