A quantitative prediction for depth of depression at sandstone blocks in coastal spray zone: An example of Yayoi Bridge at Aoshima Island on the Nichinan coast

Chikei/Transactions, Japanese Geomorphological Union

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-28

  Aoki, Hisashi ^a   Matsukura, Yukinori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aoshima; Depth of depression; Equotip hardness; Salt weathering; Sandstone; Tafoni like depression

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; SANDSTONE; SEA SALT;

EID: 14044268649     PISSN: 03891755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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