Confirmation of beach accretion by grain-size trend analysis: Camposoto beach, Cádiz, SW Spain

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 263-272

  Poizot, Emmanuel ^a   Anfuso, Giorgio ^b   Méar, Yann ^a   Bellido, Carlos ^b  

^a Université de Caen Normandie   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL APPROACH; COASTAL MANAGEMENT; FINER PARTICLES; GRAIN SIZE TREND; GRAIN-SIZE DISTRIBUTION; MICRO TOPOGRAPHY; POSITIVELY SKEWED; STEEPER SLOPES;

CALCIUM; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

BEACHES;

AUTOCORRELATION; BEACH; BREAKING WAVE; GRAIN SIZE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; WAVE RUNUP;

ANDALUCIA; CADIZ [ANDALUCIA]; SPAIN;

EID: 84880509780     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-013-0325-3     Document Type: Article

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