The configuration of equilibrium beach profile in South China

Geomorphology

Volumn 86, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 441-454

  Dai, Zhi Jun ^a,b,c   Du, Jin zhou ^a   Li, Chun Chu ^b   Chen, Zi Shen ^b  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Configuration types; Equilibrium beach profile (EBP); Fractal analysis; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BEACH PROFILE; COASTAL EVOLUTION; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; FIELD METHOD; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; SIMULATION; WATER LEVEL;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NANWAN BAY; TAIWAN;

EID: 34047261648     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.09.016     Document Type: Article

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