Large-scale coastal change in the Columbia River littoral cell: An overview

Marine Geology

Volumn 273, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Gelfenbaum, Guy ^a   Kaminsky, George M ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal accretion; Coastal behavior; Coastal dynamics; Coastal erosion; Geological processes; Littoral cell

Indexed keywords

19TH CENTURY; ANTHROPOGENIC INFLUENCE; CLIMATIC FLUCTUATIONS; COASTAL CHANGE; COASTAL DUNE; COASTAL DYNAMICS; COASTAL EROSION; COLUMBIA RIVER; DEEPWATER; DRAINAGE BASIN; FINE-GRAINED SAND; GEOLOGICAL PROCESS; HIGH ENERGY; HOLOCENES; INTERANNUAL; LITTORAL CELL; NAVIGATION CHANNELS; NEARSHORES; OREGON COAST; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEDIMENT DYNAMIC; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SHORELINE CHANGE; TIME AND SPACE; WASHINGTON; WAVE CLIMATES;

BEACHES; CATCHMENTS; CELLS; COASTAL ENGINEERING; JETTIES; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEAN CURRENTS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; VEHICULAR TUNNELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ACCRETION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; COASTAL EROSION; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DRAINAGE; DREDGING; DUNE; EL NINO; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; HOLOCENE; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; NAVIGATION CHANNEL; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; NINETEENTH CENTURY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHORELINE CHANGE; SUBSIDENCE; WAVE CLIMATE;

COLUMBIA ESTUARY; COLUMBIA RIVER; GRAYS HARBOR; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 77954865797     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2010.02.007     Document Type: Article

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