Relating accretion and erosion at an exposed tidal wetland to the bottom shear stress of combined current-wave action

Geomorphology

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 380-389

  Shi, B W ^a   Yang, S L ^a   Wang, Y P ^b   Bouma, T J ^c   Zhu, Q ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Combined current wave action; Mudflat; Salt marsh; Sediment dynamics; Shear stress; Tidal wetland

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; EROSION; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; MUDFLAT; SALTMARSH; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR STRESS; WAVE-CURRENT INTERACTION; WETLAND;

CHINA; YANGTZE DELTA;

EID: 82855165010     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.10.004     Document Type: Article

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