Seasonal patterns of coarse sediment transport on a mixed sand and gravel beach due to vessel wakes, wind waves, and tidal currents

Marine Geology

Volumn 259, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 73-85

  Curtiss, Gregory M ^a   Osborne, Philip D ^b   Horner Devine, Alexander R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b PLLC   (United States)

Author keywords

beach morphology; ferry wake wash; gravel tracers; gravel transport; mixed sand and gravel beach; RFID

Indexed keywords

BEACH PROFILES; BEACH RESPONSE; COARSE SEDIMENT TRANSPORTS; COARSE SEDIMENTS; DIFFERENT MODES; DIRECT MEASUREMENTS; FERRY WAKE WASH; GRAIN COMPOSITIONS; HYDRODYNAMIC MEASUREMENTS; LONG TERM OBSERVATIONS; MIXED SAND AND GRAVEL BEACH; MORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PASSIVE INTEGRATED TRANSPONDERS; PUGET SOUNDS; RADIO-FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATIONS; RFID; SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS; SEASONAL PATTERNS; SEDIMENT COMPOSITIONS; SEDIMENT MOVEMENTS; SEDIMENT PARTICLES; TIDAL CURRENTS; TIME-SCALES; TRANSPORT PATTERNS; WAVE CLIMATES; WIND WAVES; WINTER STORMS;

BEACHES; FLUID DYNAMICS; OCEAN CURRENTS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SAND; SECURITY OF DATA; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STORMS; WAKES; WAVES;

GRAVEL;

BEACH; GRAVEL; SAND; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TIDAL CURRENT; VESSEL; WIND WAVE;

EID: 62149090275     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2008.12.009     Document Type: Article

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