Research Catalog
Marine sediment transport and environmental management
- 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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- 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
- 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