Sediment transport under wave and current combined flows on a tide-dominated shoreface, northern coast of France

Marine Geology

Volumn 249, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 226-242

  Héquette, Arnaud ^a   Hemdane, Yacine ^b   Anthony, Edward J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU LITTORAL CÔTE D OPALE   (France)

^b Sogreah Algérie ^*  (Algeria)

Author keywords

combined flows; macrotidal; North Sea; northern French coast; sediment transport; shoreface

Indexed keywords

COMBINED FLOWS; MACROTIDAL; NORTH SEA; NORTHERN FRENCH COASTS; SHOREFACE;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WATER WAVES;

COASTAL ZONES;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; CURRENT; HYDRODYNAMICS; LONGSHORE TRANSPORT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WAVE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 40849102400     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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