The importance of being coupled: Stable states and catastrophic shifts in tidal biomorphodynamics

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Marani, Marco ^a   D'Alpaos, Andrea ^a   Lanzoni, Stefano ^a   Carniello, Luca ^a   Rinaldo, Andrea ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTA; DEPOSITION; EROSION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; MARINE SEDIMENT; MORPHODYNAMICS; REGRESSION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TRANSGRESSION; WIND-WAVE INTERACTION;

EID: 77958124033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JF001600     Document Type: Article

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