Self-stabilized fractality of seacoasts through damped erosion

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Sapoval, B ^a,b   Baldassarri, A ^a,c   Gabrielli, A ^d  

^a LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DE LA MATIÈRE CONDENSÉE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d MUSEO STORICO DELLA FISICA E CENTRO STUDI E RICERCHE ENRICO FERMI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRASION; CARBONATION; COASTAL ENGINEERING; CORROSION; DAMPING; DRYING; FRACTALS; HYDROLYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PROBABILITY; STORMS; THERMAL EXPANSION; WETTING;

COASTLINE MORPHOLOGY; FRACTAL GEOMETRY; PERCOLATION GEOMETRY; VISCOUS DAMPING;

EROSION;

EID: 19544381349     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.098501     Document Type: Article

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