Research Catalog

Title

Sedimentary dynamics of continental shelves / edited by C.A. Nittrouer.

Publication

Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier Scientific ; New York : Distributed for the U.S. and Canada, Elsevier/North Holland, 1981.

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Details

Additional Authors

Nittrouer, Charles A.

Description

viii, 449 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Developments in sedimentology ; 32

Uniform Title

Developments in sedimentology ; 32.

Subject

• Marine sediments
• Continental shelf
• Sediment transport
• Schelf
• Sediment
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Sédiments marins
• Sédiments (géologie) > Transport
• Plateau continental

Note

• "Reprinted from: Marine geology, vol. 42, no. 1/4."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Suspended-sediment transport and benthic boundary-layer dynamics / C. E. Adams and G. L. Weatherly -- New instrumentation for the investigation of sediment suspension processes in the shallow marine environment / J. P. Downing, R. W. Sternberg and C. R. B. Lister -- Measurements of the Reynolds stress components close to a marine sand bank / R. L. Soulsby -- The role of non-uniform roughness in the formation of sand ribbons / S. R. McLean -- Comparisons of measured and predicted sediment transport rates in tidal currents / A. D. Heathershaw -- Field investigations of the threshold of grain motion by ocean waves and currents / L. H. Larsen et al. -- Effects of biological activity on the entrainment of marine sediments / A. R. M. Nowell, P. A. Jumars and J. E. Eckman -- A simple model of flow-sediment-organism interaction / P. A. Jumars, A. R. M. Nowell and R. F. L. Self -- The use of radon-222 as a tracer of sediment irrigation and mixing on the Washington continental shelf / W. M. Smethie, C. A. Nittrouer and R. F. L. Self -- The formation of sedimentary strata in an allochthonous shelf environment: the Washington continental shelf / C. A. Nittrouer and R. W. Sternberg -- Sand waves on an epicontinental shelf: northern Bering Sea / M. E. Field et al. -- Factors controlling shelf sediment dispersal along the southeast African continental margin / B. W. Flemming -- Sediment entrainment on a wave-graded shelf, Roussillon, France / C. F. Jago and J. P. Barusseau -- Morphology and dynamic sedimentology of the eastern Nile delta shelf / J. M. Coleman et al. -- Offbank transport of carbonate sands along open, leeward bank margins: northern Bahamas / A. C. Hine et al. -- Processes controlling the characteristics of the surficial sand sheet, U.S. Atlantic outer continental shelf / H. J. Knebel -- Sediment iransport in the New York Bight, North American Atlantic Shelf / C. E. Vincent, D. J. P. Swift and B. Hillard -- The Hudson Shelf Valley: its role in shelf sediment transport / G. L. Freeland et al. -- Preservation potential of transgressive coastal lithosomes on the U.S. Atlantic shelf / D. F. Belknap and J. C. Kraft.

ISBN

• 0444419624
• 9780444419620
• 0444412387
• 9780444412386

LCCN

81009788

OCLC

• ocm07577935
• 7577935
• SCSB-8855705

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library