Sediment transport and deposition during extreme sea storm events at the Salerno Bay (Tyrrhenian Sea): Comparison of field data with numerical model results

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 839-852

  Budillon, F ^a   Vicinanza, D ^b   Ferrante, V ^b   Iorio, M ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HINDCASTING; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE SEDIMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SAND; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; STORM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GULF OF SALERNO; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

EID: 33749168397     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-6-839-2006     Document Type: Article

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