Note on sediment sorting in a sandy bed under standing water waves

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 694-699

  Landry, Blake J ^a   Hancock, Matthew J ^a   Mei, Chiang C ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Ripples; Sand bars; Sand sorting; Surface waves

Indexed keywords

SAND; SEDIMENTS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE WAVES; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

SAND BAR FORMATION; SAND SORTING;

WATER WAVES;

SAND; SEDIMENTS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE WAVES; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); WATER WAVES;

FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; MARINE SEDIMENT; RIPPLE; SANDBAR; SEAFLOOR; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SORTING; STANDING WAVE; SURFACE WAVE; WATER WAVE; WAVE ACTION;

EID: 34548047688     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2007.02.003     Document Type: Article

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