Origin of rippled scour depressions associated with cohesive sediments in a shoreface setting (eastern Bay of Seine, France)

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 34-42

  Garnaud, Sébastien ^a   Lesueur, Patrick ^a   Garlan, Thierry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b SHOM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; EROSION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MARINE ENGINEERING; MORPHOLOGY; SAND; SHORE PROTECTION; SONAR; TIDES;

BAY OF SEINE, FRANCE; HOLOCENE SEDIMENTS; HOLOCENE TRANSGRESSION; RIPPLED SCOUR DEPRESSIONS (RSD);

SEDIMENTS;

EROSION; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; SCOUR; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; TIDAL INLET; TRANSGRESSION;

BAY OF SEINE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 14244269809     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-004-0186-x     Document Type: Article

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