Chapter 1 The Entrainment, Transport and Sorting of Heavy Minerals by Waves and Currents

Developments in Sedimentology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2007, Pages 3-48

  Komar, Paul D ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

beach placers; continental shelf sediments; grain entrainment; grain settling velocities; placers; river placers; sediment sorting; sediment transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349166232     PISSN: 00704571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-4571(07)58001-5     Document Type: Review

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