Mobility of sediment grain size distributions on a wave dominated continental shelf, southeastern Australia

Marine Geology

Volumn 252, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 13-23

  Griffin, Jonathan D ^a   Hemer, Mark A ^b   Jones, Brian G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

continental shelf; grain size distribution; sediment mobility; South eastern Australia; wave dominated

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; SEDIMENT MOBILITY;

CONSOLIDATION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; SHEAR STRESS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

SEDIMENTS;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; DATA SET; GRAIN SIZE; MOBILITY; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR STRESS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WAVE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; PORT KEMBLA;

EID: 44649167053     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2008.03.005     Document Type: Article

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