Physical controls on development of lagoon sand deposits and lagoon infilling in an Indian Ocean atoll

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1014-1024

  Kench, Paul S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Atoll infilling; Atoll sedimentation; Carbonate sediments; Hydrodynamics; Sediment transport

Indexed keywords

ATOLL; CORAL REEF; LAGOON; SAND;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0031874852     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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