Variations in sediment wave dimensions across the tidally dominated Irish Sea, NW Europe

Marine Geology

Volumn 263, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 108-119

  Van Landeghem, Katrien J J ^a,b   Wheeler, Andrew J ^a   Mitchell, Neil C ^c   Sutton, Gerry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

geometry; grain size; Irish Sea; multibeam bathymetry; sediment waves

Indexed keywords

BED FORMS; BED-LOAD TRANSPORT; CONTINUOUS SPECTRUM; GRAIN SIZE; IRISH SEA; MULTIBEAM BATHYMETRY; MULTIBEAM ECHO SOUNDER; NEW HIGH; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SEDIMENT WAVES; SWATH BATHYMETRY; TIDAL FLOW; WATER DEPTH;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; BATHYMETRY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; WATER WAVES;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; BEDFORM; ECHO SOUNDER; OCEAN TIDE; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WATER DEPTH; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; IRISH SEA;

EID: 67349084366     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2009.04.003     Document Type: Article

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