Modeling interrelationships between morphological evolution and grain-size trends in back-barrier tidal basins of the East Frisian Wadden Sea

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 37-49

  Wang, Yunwei ^a   Yu, Qian ^a   Gao, Shu ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS; TIDES; WATERSHEDS; WETLANDS;

EAST FRISIAN WADDEN SEAS; FORWARD MODELING; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; SEDIMENT DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TIDAL FLAT SEDIMENT;

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE;

BASIN EVOLUTION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRAIN SIZE; MARINE SEDIMENT; OCEAN BASIN; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SURFICIAL SEDIMENT; TIDAL CHANNEL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EAST FRISIAN ISLANDS; FRISIAN ISLANDS; GERMANY; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

EID: 84891048582     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-013-0349-8     Document Type: Article

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