Environmental impacts of Baltim and Ras El Bar shore-parallel breakwater systems on the Nile delta littoral zone, Egypt

Environmental Geology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 381-390

  Frihy, O E ^a   El Banna, M M ^a   El Kolfat, A I ^a  

^a Coastal Research Institute ^*  (Egypt)

Author keywords

Detached breakwaters Impacts; Egypt; Impact mitigation; Mediterranean Sea; Nile delta Beach morphodynamics

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; COASTAL ZONES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EROSION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTATION;

GYRES;

BREAKWATERS;

BREAKWATER; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; HYDRODYNAMICS;

BREAKWATER; COASTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HYDRODYNAMICS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

AFRICA; EGYPT; NILE DELTA; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 0742285110     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-003-0886-y     Document Type: Article

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