Divergent response of an intertidal swash bar

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 1775-1791

  Houser, Chris ^a   Greenwood, Brian ^b   Aagaard, Troels ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Intertidal; Morphodynamics; Surf zone hydrodynamics; Suspended sediment transport; Swash bar

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; EROSION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

INTERTIDAL SWASH BAR; MORPHODYNAMICS; SURF ZONE HYDRODYNAMICS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

TIDES;

DYNAMICS; EROSION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TIDES;

INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MORPHODYNAMICS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SURF ZONE; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; WAVE RUNUP;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; RIBE; SCANDINAVIA; SKALLINGEN PENINSULA;

EID: 33845877148     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1365     Document Type: Article

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