Beach cusp morphodynamics

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1139-1155

  Masselink, Gerhard ^a   Hegge, Bruce J ^a   Pattiaratchi, Charitha B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beach cusps; Beach morpbology; Beachface; Morphodynamics; Swash processes

Indexed keywords

BEACH CUSP; BEACH MORPHOLOGY; MORPHODYNAMICS; SWASH PROCESSES;

AUSTRALIA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, PERTH;

EID: 0031428979     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199712)22:12<1139::AID-ESP766>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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