Assessment of highly active dune mobility in the medium, short and very short term

Geomorphology

Volumn 129, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 14-28

  Navarro, Marina ^a   Muñoz Pérez, Juan J ^a   Román Sierra, Jorge ^a   Tsoar, Haim ^b   Rodríguez, Inmaculada ^c   Gómez Pina, Gregorio ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^d Demarcación de Costas Andalucía Atlántico   (Spain)

Author keywords

DGPS levellings; Dune mobility; EOF; Profile changes; Sand drift potential; Transport rates

Indexed keywords

DGPS; DISPLACEMENT; DUNE FIELD; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LEVELING; MORPHOLOGY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SLOPE DYNAMICS; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; TRANSGRESSION;

STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR;

EID: 79953788903     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.01.009     Document Type: Article

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