Internal structure of the aeolian sand dunes of El Fangar spit, Ebro Delta (Tarragona, Spain)

Geomorphology

Volumn 104, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 238-252

  Rodríguez Santalla, Inmaculada ^a   Sánchez García, María José ^a   Montoya Montes, Isabel ^a   Gómez Ortiz, David ^a   Martín Crespo, Tomas ^a   Serra Raventos, Jordi ^b  

^a ESCET   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coastal dune; Ebro River Delta; Ground penetrating radar

Indexed keywords

BEACH MORPHOLOGY; DGPS; DUNE; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; MORPHOLOGY; PROGRADATION;

CATALONIA; EBRO DELTA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; TARRAGONA [CATALONIA];

EID: 58249114999     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.08.017     Document Type: Article

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