Patterns of sediment transport pathways on a headland bay beach-Nanwan Beach, South China: A case study

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1096-1103

  Dai, Zhi Jun ^a   Liu, James T ^a,b   Lei, Ya Ping ^c   Zhang, Xiao Ling ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

EOF analysis; grain size trends; Nanwan Beach; Sediment transport

Indexed keywords

BEACH; BEACH MORPHOLOGY; DATA SET; GRAIN SIZE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPATIAL VARIATION; TYPHOON; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE RUNUP;

CHINA; NANWAN BEACH; TAIWAN;

EID: 78349296001     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-09-00097.1     Document Type: Article

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