Recent morphological changes along the Krishna delta shoreline

Journal of the Geological Society of India

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 629-635

  Anand Rao, M ^a   Ramamurthy, S ^a   Shah, B M ^a   Hanumantha Rao, V ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Accretion; Coastal processes; Erosion; GIS; Image processing; Krishna Delta; Morphology

Indexed keywords

COASTAL LANDFORM; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; PROGRADATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPIT;

ANDHRA PRADESH; ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; KRISHNA DELTA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33747011791     PISSN: 00167622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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