Hydrodynamic forcings and environmental impacts on the coast and shelf of São Bento do Norte - NE/Brazil

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 88, Issue , 2006, Pages 165-174

  Tabosa, W F ^a   Vital, H ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bedforms; Coast changes; Environmental geology; Hydrodynamic forcings; Inner shelf; Northeast Brazil; Tide and wind driven processes

Indexed keywords

BEDFORM; COASTAL EROSION; COASTAL ZONE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HYDRODYNAMIC FORCE; MORPHOLOGY; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENTATION;

BRAZIL; RIO GRANDE DO NORTE; SAO BENTO DO NORTE; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 36148956173     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/CENV060161     Document Type: Article

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