Beach and sea-cliff dynamics as a driver of long-term rocky coastline evolution and stability

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1147-1150

  Limber, Patrick W ^a   Murray, A Brad ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL MODELS; BEACH SEDIMENTS; CLIFF RETREAT; EQUILIBRIUM CONFIGURATION; NONLINEAR FUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SEA-CLIFF; TIME-SCALES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; COASTAL ENGINEERING; LITHOLOGY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BEACHES;

ABRASION; BEACH MORPHOLOGY; CLIFF; COASTAL EVOLUTION; GEODYNAMICS; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROCKY SHORE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

EID: 80955159680     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32315.1     Document Type: Article

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