Human-driven coastline changes in the Adra River deltaic system, southeast Spain

Geomorphology

Volumn 119, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 9-22

  Jabaloy Sánchez, Antonio ^a   Lobo, Francisco José ^b   Azor, Antonio ^a   Bárcenas, Patricia ^c   Fernández Salas, Luis Miguel ^d   del Río, Víctor Díaz ^d   Pérez Peña, José Vicente ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^d Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bathymetry; Coastline changes; Damming; Delta; GIS; River deviation

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BATHYMETRY; COASTAL EROSION; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; DELTA; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; GIS; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER FLOW; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHORELINE CHANGE;

ADRA RIVER; ALMERIA [ANDALUCIA]; ANDALUCIA; SPAIN;

EID: 77952670845     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.02.004     Document Type: Article

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