The influence of nearshore sand bank dynamics on shoreline evolution in a macrotidal coastal environment, Calais, northern France

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1349-1361

  Hequette, Arnaud ^a,b,c   Aernouts, David ^d  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b Laboratoire d Océanologie et de Géosciences   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DU LITTORAL CÔTE D OPALE   (France)

Author keywords

Dover Strait; Macrotidal coast; Shoreface; Shoreline evolution; Southern North Sea; Tidal sand bank

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; BATHYMETRY; BEACH; COASTAL EROSION; COASTAL EVOLUTION; COASTAL ZONE; EOLIAN PROCESS; MARINE SEDIMENT; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; PROGRADATION; SANDBANK; SEAFLOOR; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CALAIS; DOVER STRAIT; ENGLISH CHANNEL; FRANCE; NORD PAS DE CALAIS; NORTH SEA; PAS DE CALAIS;

EID: 77955558957     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2010.04.017     Document Type: Article

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