Sediment transport on the Palos Verdes shelf, California

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 761-780

  Ferré, Bénédicte ^a   Sherwood, Christopher R ^a   Wiberg, Patricia L ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

California; DDT; Erodibility; Numerical model; Palos Verdes; PCBs; Sediment transport; USA

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC BOUNDARY LAYER; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DDT; DEPOSITION; FLOW MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PCB; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RESUSPENSION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SETTLING VELOCITY; SHEAR STRESS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PALOS VERDES SHELF;

EID: 77950187612     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2010.01.011     Document Type: Article

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