Application of a barrier island translation model to the millennial-scale evolution of Sand Key, Florida

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1116-1126

  Masetti, Riccardo ^a   Fagherazzi, Sergio ^b   Montanari, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrier islands; Numerical model; Overwash; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

BARRIER ISLAND; COASTAL EVOLUTION; FACIES; GEOMETRY; LAGOONAL SEDIMENTATION; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; STRATIGRAPHY; WIND WAVE;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 43049172118     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2008.02.021     Document Type: Article

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