Small-scale sediment transport patterns and bedform morphodynamics: New insights from high-resolution multibeam bathymetry

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 227-236

  Barnard, Patrick L ^a   Erikson, Li H ^a   Kvitek, Rikk G ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BED FORMS; BEST ESTIMATES; DOMINANT PROCESS; FLOW DETACHMENT; FLOW REGIMES; HIGH RESOLUTION; MORPHODYNAMICS; MULTIBEAM BATHYMETRY; MULTIBEAM DATA; MULTIBEAM ECHO SOUNDER; NUMERICAL MODELING; POINT DENSITY; PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; SAN FRANCISCO BAY , CALIFORNIA; SEA FLOOR; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT PATTERN; TEMPORAL SCALE; WATER DEPTH;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BATHYMETRY; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; MODELS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SURVEYS;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS;

BATHYMETRY; BEDFORM; BOUNDARY LAYER; DEFLECTION; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MORPHODYNAMICS; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER DEPTH;

CALIFORNIA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960328811     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-011-0227-1     Document Type: Article

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