High Resolution Morphodynamics and Sedimentary Evolution of Estuaries (eBook)

Duncan M. Fitzgerald, Jasper Knight (Herausgeber)

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2007 | 2005
VI, 366 Seiten
Springer Netherland (Verlag)
978-1-4020-3296-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This collection of papers offers a new approach to nearshore and estuary studies, with an emphasis on multidisciplinary techniques and data integration. The important results of these studies are accompanied by full color images.

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Estuaries occur along many of the world's coastlines irrespective of geologic setting, energy regime, and depositional environment. They represent the interface between fluvial, coastal and marine environments and they contain the sedimentary record of geological changes among these systems. However, detailed case studies on the morphodynamics and sedimentary evolution of different estuarine environments are notably lacking. This book focuses on the use of high-resolution geophysical techniques, field observations and modeling to investigate the morphodynamics of estuaries on both glaciated and non-glaciated coasts and on different time scales. Papers in this book offer a new approach to nearshore and estuary studies, with an emphasis on multidisciplinary techniques and data integration. Results of these studies have important implications for estuary resource management and shoreline stability. This book will be of interest to sedimentologists, coastal and Quaternary geologists, environmental scientists, and coastal managers.

Inhalt

Table of Contents 6
Chapter 1 TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE MORPHODYNAMICS AND SEDIMENTARY EVOLUTION OF ESTUARIES 8
Chapter 2 HIGH- RESOLUTION GEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATIONS SEAWARD OF THE BANN ESTUARY, NORTHERN IRELAND COAST 17
Chapter 3 A SEABED CLASSIFICATION APPROACH BASED ON MULTIPLE ACOUSTIC SENSORS IN THE HUDSON RIVER ESTUARY 38
Chapter 4 ANALYSIS OF LAND-COVER SHIFTS IN TIME AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE 61
Chapter 5 COMPARISON OF THE HYDRODYNAMIC CHARACTER OF THREE TIDAL INLET SYSTEMS 87
Chapter 6 SUSPENDED SEDIMENT FLUXES IN THE MIDDLE REACH OF THE BAHIA BLANCA ESTUARY, ARGENTINA 105
Chapter 7 TEMPORAL VARIABILITY IN SALINITY, TEMPERATURE AND SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS IN A GULF OF MAINE ESTUARY (GREAT BAY ESTUARY, NEW HAMPSHIRE) 119
Chapter 8 MORPHODYNAMICS AND SEDIMENT FLUX IN THE BLYTH ESTUARY, SUFFOLK, UK 147
Chapter 9 CONTROLS ON ESTUARINE SEDIMENT DYNAMICS IN MERRYMEETING BAY, KENNEBEC RIVER ESTUARY, MAINE, U.S.A. 176
Chapter 10 COARSE- GRAINED SEDIMENT TRANSPORT IN NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND ESTUARIES: A SYNTHESIS 198
Chapter 11 MORPHODYNAMIC BEHAVIOUR OF A HIGH-ENERGY COASTAL INLET: LOUGHROS BEG, DONEGAL, IRELAND 217
Chapter 12 COMPLEX MORPHO-HYDRODYNAMIC RESPONSE OF ESTUARIES AND BAYS TO WINTER STORMS: NORTH-CENTRAL GULF OF MEXICO, USA 245
Chapter 13 EFFECTS OF COLD FRONTS ON BAYHEAD DELTA DEVELOPMENT: ATCHAFALAYA BAY, LOUISIANA, USA 270
Chapter 14 EVOLVING UNDERSTANDING OF THE TAY ESTUARY, SCOTLAND 300
Chapter 15 SEDIMENTOLOGICAL SIGNATURES OF RIVERINE- DOMINATED PHASES IN ESTUARINE AND BARRIER EVOLUTION ALONG AN EMBAYED COASTLINE 315
Chapter 16 PALEODELTAS AND PRESERVATION POTENTIAL ON A PARAGLACIAL COAST – EVOLUTION OF EASTERN PENOBSCOT BAY, MAINE 335
Index 361

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.7.2007
• Reihe/Serie: Coastal Systems and Continental Margins
• Reihe/Serie: Coastal Systems and Continental Margins
• Zusatzinfo: VI, 366 p.
• Verlagsort: Dordrecht
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: coast • Delta • Estuaries • Estuarine Circulation • Estuarine Sediment • Holocene Sediment • Isle • Marine • Mineral Resources • Transport
• ISBN-10: 1-4020-3296-X / 140203296X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4020-3296-7 / 9781402032967