The formation of headland/island sandbanks

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 29, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 2167-2177

  Neill, Simon P ^a   Scourse, James D ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bedload transport; English Channel; Headlands; Holocene; Portland Bill; Sandbanks; Sediment dynamics; Tidal currents

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; BEDLOAD; EDDY; SANDBANK; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; TIDAL MODELING;

DORSET [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; ISLE OF PORTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349863079     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2009.08.008     Document Type: Article

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