Suspended matter in the Scheldt estuary

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 540, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 79-104

  Chen, Margaret S ^a   Wartel, Stanislas ^a   Van Eck, Bert ^b   Van Maldegem, Dirk ^b  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management RIKZ   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

13C; Estuarine energy; Flocculation; Light penetration; Scheldt ETM; Suspended matter

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DREDGING; EROSION; MORPHOLOGY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TURBIDITY; WAVE POWER;

COHESIVE-ORGANO MINERAL AGGREGATES; ESTUARINE TURBIDITY MAXIMA (ETM); RIVER ENERGY; SUSPENDED MATTER; TIDAL ENERGY;

ESTUARIES;

SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TURBIDITY;

BENELUX; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE; WESTERSCHELDE; WORLD; ZEELAND;

EID: 21144458233     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-004-7122-y     Document Type: Article

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