High-density suspensions formed under waves

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 386-397

  Lamb, Michael P ^a   Parsons, Jeffrey D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; SILT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

BULK RICHARDSON NUMBER; CONCENTRATION GRADIENTS; DYNAMIC FEEDBACK; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; ORBITAL VELOCITIES; SETTLING VELOCITY; WAVE BOUNDARY LAYER; WAVE CONDITIONS;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

BOUNDARY LAYER; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; WAVE;

CALIFORNIA SHELF; EEL SHELF; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

ANGUILLIFORMES;

EID: 19344368161     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2005.030     Document Type: Article

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