Measuring sediment transport and bed disturbance with tracers on a mixed beach

Marine Geology

Volumn 299-302, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-17

  Miller, Ian M ^a   Warrick, Jonathan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elwha; Mixed beach; Puget Sound; RFID; Sediment transport; Strait of Juan de Fuca; Tracers

Indexed keywords

CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; DEPLOYMENT METHODS; ELWHA; MEAN LOWER LOW WATERS; MEAN SEA LEVEL; PUGET SOUND; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RIVER DELTAS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT PATTERN; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT RATE; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA; TRACER VELOCITY; TRANSPORT RATE; WASHINGTON; WAVE ENERGY TRANSPORT;

BEACHES; COASTAL ENGINEERING; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTATION; WATER WAVES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

BEACH; DISTURBANCE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; VELOCITY; WAVE HEIGHT;

JUAN DE FUCA STRAIT; PUGET SOUND; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 84857133940     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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