Intertidal landscape response time to dike breaching and stepwise re-embankment: A combined historical and geomorphological study

Geomorphology

Volumn 236, Issue , 2015, Pages 64-78

  Jongepier, Iason ^a   Wang, Chen ^a   Missiaen, Tine ^b   Soens, Tim ^a   Temmerman, Stijn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Embankment practices; Equilibrium state; Historical maps; Intertidal landscape response; Sediment elevation; Sedimentation rate

Indexed keywords

DIKE; EMBANKMENT; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MAP; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

WESTERSCHELDE;

EID: 84924024401     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.02.012     Document Type: Article

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