Acoustic imaging of cohesive sediment resuspension and re-entrainment in the Changjiang Estuary, East China Sea

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 162-168

  Shi, Z ^a   Ren, L F ^b   Zhang, S Y ^b   Chen, J Y ^c  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGES; COHESIVE SEDIMENT; COHESIVE SEDIMENTS; ESTUARINE SEDIMENTS; RE-ENTRAINMENT; RESUSPENSION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TURBULENCE; WAVE ACTIVITY;

CHINA, YANGTZE ESTUARY;

EID: 0030842287     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003670050022     Document Type: Article

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