The coastal transition at the mouth of a small mountainous river in Taiwan

Sedimentology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 803-816

  Liu, J T ^a   Yuan, P B ^a   Hung, J J ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COASTAL EVOLUTION; COASTAL SEDIMENT; DELTA; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ESTUARY;

TAIWAN;

EID: 0032451550     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1998.00175.x     Document Type: Article

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