Ship Shoal as a prospective borrow site for barrier island restoration, coastal south-central Louisiana, Usa: Numerical wave modeling and field measurements of hydrodynamics and sediment transport

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 70-88

  Stone, Gregory W ^a   Pepper, David A ^b   Xu, Jingping ^c   Zhang, Xiongping ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold fronts; Currents; Gulf of Mexico; Inner shelf; Storms

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MINING; OFFSHORE DREDGING; SANDBANK; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STORM; WAVE SIMULATION;

COLD FRONT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MINING; OFFSHORE APPLICATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STORM; WAVE MODELING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; ISLES DERNIERES; LOUISIANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1842508182     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/1551-5036(2004)20[70:ssaapb]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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