Exploring the persistence of sorted bedforms on the inner-shelf of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-90

  Gutierrez, Benjamin T ^a   Voulgaris, George ^a   Thieler, E Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bed roughness; Inner shelf; North Carolina; Rippled scour depressions; Sediment transport; Sorted bedforms; USA; Wave current interaction

Indexed keywords

BED ROUGHNESS; BEDFORM; CONTINENTAL SHELF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WAVE-CURRENT INTERACTION;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD; WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH;

EID: 10644262320     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2004.07.027     Document Type: Article

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