Engineering and environmental effects of coastline changes in Turkey, northeastern Mediterranean

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 315-330

  Cetin, Hasan ^a   Yilmaz, Bal ^b   Demirkol, Cavit ^a  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Gen Hq Mapping of the Turkish Army   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Coastline change; Dams; Engineering geology; Environmental geology; Paleogeography; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; DELTA; RIVER DISCHARGE; SHORELINE CHANGE;

TURKEY;

EID: 0342827879     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gseegeosci.v.3.315     Document Type: Article

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