Use of annular flumes to determine the influence of current velocity and bivalves on material flux at the sediment-water interface

Estuaries

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 552-559

  Widdows, John ^a   Brinsley, Mary D ^a   Salkeld, Peter N ^a   Elliott, Mike ^b  

^a PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNULAR FLUME; BIODEPOSITION; BIOTURBATION; EROSION;

CURRENT VELOCITY; FLUME EXPERIMENT; MOLLUSC; MUDFLAT; PARTICULATE FLUX; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE;

BIVALVIA; CERASTODERMA EDULE; MACOMA; MACOMA BALTHICA; MOLLUSCA; MYTILUS EDULIS;

EID: 0032452085     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1353294     Document Type: Conference Paper

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