Alexandria-Nile Delta coast, Egypt: Update and future projection of relative sea-level rise

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 253-273

  El Sayed Frihy, Omran ^a   Deabes, Essam A ^a   Shereet, Samy M ^a   Abdalla, Farid A ^a  

^a Coastal Research Institute ^*  (Egypt)

Author keywords

Holocene sedimentation; Land subsidence; Mediterranean Sea; Nile Delta; Sea level changes; Tectonically active areas

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AREA; HOLOCENE SEDIMENTATION; HOLOCENES; LAND SUBSIDENCE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NILE DELTA; SEALEVEL CHANGE;

BEACHES; COASTAL ZONES; SEA LEVEL; SOIL MECHANICS; TECTONICS; TIDE GAGES;

SUBSIDENCE;

COASTAL PLAIN; COMPRESSION; DEWATERING; FUTURE PROSPECT; HISTORICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TECTONIC SETTING; TIDE GAUGE;

ALEXANDRIA [EGYPT]; EGYPT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NILE DELTA;

EID: 77954024806     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0340-x     Document Type: Article

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