Control of estuarine sediment dynamics by interactions between currents and waves at several scales

Marine Geology

Volumn 144, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 97-116

  Green, Malcolm O ^a   Black, Kerry P ^a,b   Amos, Carl L ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Currents; Estuary; Sediment transport; Waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031473212     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(97)00065-0     Document Type: Article

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