Research Catalog

Title

Marine sediment transport and environmental management / edited by Daniel Jean Stanley, Donald J.P. Swift.

Publication

New York : Wiley, ©1976.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Stanley, Daniel J.
• Swift, Donald J. P.
• American Geological Institute.

Description

xv, 602 pages : illustrations; 29 cm.

Series Statement

A Wiley interscience publication

Uniform Title

Wiley interscience publication.

Alternative Title

New concepts of continental margin sedimentation, II.

Subject

• Marine sediments
• Sediment transport
• Environmental management
• Environmental engineering
• environmental control
• environmental engineering
• Environmental engineering
• Environmental management
• Marine sediments
• Sediment transport
• Sédiments marins
• Sédiments (géologie) > Transport

Note

• "A Wiley-Interscience publication."
• "Outgrowth of lectures presented at a short course, 'The New concepts of continental margin sedimentation, II', sponsored by the American Geological Institute ... convened at Key Biscayne, Florida, on November 15 to 17, 1974."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Introduction / D.J.P. Swift and D.J. Stanley -- Introduction to the physical oceanography and fluid dynamics of continental margins / C.N.K. Mooers -- Some simple mechanisms for steady shelf circulation / A. Leetmaa -- Wind-driven currents on the continental margin / C.N.K. Mooers -- Tidal currents / H.O. Mofield -- Wave climate of the continental margin : elements of its mathematical description / O.S. Madsen -- Boundary layer flow under steady unidirectional currents / P.D. Komar -- The transport of cohesionless sediments on continental shelves / P.D. Komar -- Suspended sediment transport and mud deposition on continental shelves / D.E. Drake -- Substrate response to hydraulic process : grain-size frequency distributions and bedforms / D.J.P. Swift and J.C. Ludwick -- Subaqueous sediment transport and deposition by sediment gravity flows / G.V. Middleton and M.A. Hampton -- Intracoastal sedimentation / H.R. Wanless -- Nearshore currents and sediment transport, and the resulting beach / P.D. Komar -- Coastal sedimentation ; Continental shelf sedimentation / D.J.P. Swift -- Shelf-break processes and sedimentation / J.B. Southard and D.J. Stanley -- Sedimentation in canyon, slope and base-of-slope environments / G. Kelling and D.J. Stanley -- Suspended sediment transport at the shelfbreak and over the outer margin / J.W. Pierce -- Chemistry and continental margin sedimentation / P.G. Hatcher and D.A. Segar -- Sedimentation and food resources : animal-sediment relationships / S.B. Saila -- Sedimentation and coastal engineering : beaches and harbors / D.B. Duane -- Sedimentation and ocean engineering : structures / H.D. Palmer -- Sedimentation and ocean engineering : placer mineral resources / D.B. Duane -- Sedimentation and ocean engineering : ocean dumping / C.G. Hard and H.D. Palmer -- Perspectives of shelf sedimentology / K.O. Emery.

ISBN

• 0471025402
• 9780471025405

LCCN

75041396

OCLC

• ocm02327674
• 2327674
• SCSB-286510

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library