Application of an analytical model of critically stratified gravity-driven sediment transport and deposition to observations from the Eel River continental shelf, Northern California

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 2002, Pages 1951-1974

  Scully, M E ^a   Friedrichs, C T ^a   Wright, L D ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Eel River; Fluid mud; Regional USA; Richardson number; Sediment gravity flows; Sediment transport; Shelf sedimentation; Stratification

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; GRAVITY FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIFICATION;

UNITED STATES;

ANGUILLIFORMES;

EID: 0036744303     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-4343(02)00047-X     Document Type: Article

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