A study of coastal transformation at Tuticorin as a result of emerged and submerged natural breakwaters of Van Island, Gulf of Mannar

Environmental Geology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 521-525

  Ramanujam, N ^a   Sudarsan, R ^b  

^a V O CHIDAMBARAM COLLEGE   (India)

^b INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

India; Protruding shoreline; Salaipatorri Point; Salient; Tuticorin Harbour

Indexed keywords

BREAKWATERS; ECOSYSTEMS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

ARTIFICIAL OFFSHORE STRUCTURES;

COASTAL ENGINEERING;

BARRIER ISLAND; BREAKWATER; COASTAL LANDFORM; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS;

GULF OF MANNAR; INDIAN OCEAN;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 0038176943     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-002-0660-6     Document Type: Article

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