Application of grain-size trend analysis and spatio-temporal changes of sedimentation, as a tool for lagoon management. Case study: The Kotychi lagoon (western Greece)

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 261-268

  Avramidis, Pavlos ^a,c   Bouzos, Dionisios ^a   Antoniou, Vasilios ^b   Kontopoulos, Nikolaos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coastline changes; Grain size trend; Greece; Kotychi lagoon; Remote sensing; Sedimentology

Indexed keywords

COASTAL PROTECTION; DETECTION METHOD; GRAIN SIZE; LAGOONAL SEDIMENTATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHALLOW WATER; SHORELINE CHANGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; ILIA; KOTYCHI LAGOON; PELOPONNESE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN GREECE;

EID: 48749085373     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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