Long-term influence of maritime access works on the distribution of cohesive sediments: Analysis of historical and recent data from the Belgian nearshore area (southern North Sea)

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 321-330

  Fettweis, Michael ^a   Houziaux, Jean Sébastien ^a   Du Four, Isabelle ^b   Van Lancker, Vera ^a,b   Baeteman, Cecile ^c   Mathys, Mieke ^b   Van den Eynde, Dries ^a   Francken, Frederic ^a   Wartel, Stanislas ^a  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CAUSE; COHESIVE SEDIMENTS; COMBINED ANALYSIS; DREDGED SEDIMENTS; FIELD DESCRIPTION; FINE-GRAINED SEDIMENT; FRESH MUD; HOLOCENES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LONG-TERM CHANGES; METEOROLOGICAL EFFECTS; NATURAL VARIABILITY; NAVIGATION CHANNELS; NEAR-SHORE ZONES; NEARSHORES; PORT CONSTRUCTIONS; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; SOUTHERN NORTH SEA; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; THICK LAYERS;

BATHYMETRY; DATA PROCESSING; MAPS; MINES; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

DREDGING;

COHESIVE SEDIMENT; DEPOSITION; EROSION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MUD; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH SEA; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349257403     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-009-0161-7     Document Type: Article

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