Research Catalog

Title

Nearshore sediment dynamics and sedimentation : an interdisciplinary review / edited by J. Hails and A. Carr.

Publication

London ; New York : Wiley, [1975]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hails, John R.
• Carr, Alan, 1930-
• British Geomorphological Research Group.

Description

xiii, 316 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Coast changes > Congresses
• Marine sediments > Congresses
• Oceanography > Congresses
• Coast changes
• Marine sediments
• Oceanography
• Küste
• Sedimentation
• Aufsatzsammlung
• OCEANOGRAPHY
• COASTS
• SEDIMENTS
• CONFERENCES
• Coast changes
• Marine sediments
• Oceanography
• Littoraux
• Sédiments (géologie) > Transport
• Hydrodynamique

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Aufsatzsammlung.
• Konferenzschrift.
• Congresses.
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Chiefly papers read at a symposium organized by the editors on behalf of the British Geomorphological Research Group, held in the Dept. of Geography, University of Southampton, 27 October 1973.
• "A Wiley-Interscience publication."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Contents

Wave conditions in coastal areas / P. Holmes -- Nearshore currents : generation by obliquely incident waves and longshore variations in breaker height / Paul D. Komar -- Wave asymmetry in the nearshore zone and breaker area / P.H. Kemp -- Comparison of the hydrodynamics of steep and shallow beaches / D.A. Huntley and A.J. Bowen -- Trends in the application of research to solve coastal engineering problems / D.H. Willis and W.A. Price -- Marine bars and nearshore sedimentary processes, Kouchibouguac Bay, New Brunswick / Brian Greenwood and Robin G.D. Davidson-Arnott -- Sediment mobility and erosion on a multibarred foreshore (southwest Lancashire, U.K.) / W.R. Parker -- Cyclical changes in shoreline development at the entrance to Teignmouth Harbour, Devon, England / A.H.W. Robinson -- Dynamics and sedimentation : the Tay in comparison with other estuaries / A.T. Buller, C.D. Green and J. McManus -- Dynamic structures in the Holocene Chenier Plain setting of Essex, England / J.T. Greensmith and E.V. Tucker -- The transportation and deposition of suspended sediment over the intertidal flats of the Wash / G. Evans and M.B. Collins.

ISBN

• 0471339466
• 9780471339465

LCCN

75006950

OCLC

• ocm01256941
• 1256941
• SCSB-285225

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library