Coastal resilience and late Holocene tidal inlet history: The evolution of Dungeness Foreland and the Romney Marsh depositional complex (U.K.)

Geomorphology

Volumn 82, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 309-330

  Long, A J ^a   Waller, M P ^b   Plater, A J ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barrier; Gravel; Inlet system; Reclamation; Saltmarsh; Sea level change

Indexed keywords

COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; HOLOCENE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PROGRADATION; RESILIENCE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIDAL INLET; WATER EXCHANGE;

DUNGENESS; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; KENT; ROMNEY MARSH; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33751330432     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.05.010     Document Type: Article

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