Sediments, morphology, and sedimentary processes on continental shelves : advances in technologies, research, and applications / edited by Michael Z. Li, Christopher R. Sherwood, Philip R. Hill.

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Published: Oxford ; Hoboken, NJ : Chichester [England] : Wiley-Blackwell ; IAS, 2012.
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Series:Special publication ... of the International Association of Sedimentologists ; no. 44.
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Table of Contents:
  • Optimal use of multibeam technology in the study of shelf morphodynamics / John E. Hughes-Clarke
  • Palaeogeographic reconstruction of Hecate Strait British Columbia : changing sea levels and sedimentary processes reshape a glaciated shelf / J. Vaughn Barrie and KIm W. Conway
  • Changes in submarine channel morphology and slope sedimentation patterns from repeat multibeam surveys in the Fraser River delta, western Canada / Philip R. Hill
  • Recent sedimentary processes in the Cap de Creus canyon head and adjacent continental shelf, NE Spain : evidence from multibeam bathymetry, sub-bottom profiles and coring / A. García-García ... [et al.]
  • Geology metrics for predicting shoreline change using seabed and sub-bottom observations from the surf zone and nearshore / Jesse E. McNinch and Jennifer L. Miselis
  • Re-examination of sand ridges on the middle and outer New Jersey shelf based on combined analysis of multibeam bathymetry and backscatter, seafloor grab samples and chirp seismic data / John A. Goff and Catherine S. Duncan
  • Sedimentary facies of shoreface-connected sand ridges of the East Frisian barrier-island coast, southern North Sea : climatic controls and preservation potential / Chang Soo Son, Burghard W. Flemming and Tae Soo Chang
  • Recent advances in understanding continental shelf sediment transport / L.D. Wright
  • Recent advances in instrumentation used to study sediment transport / Jon J. Williams
  • Seabed disturbance and bedform distribution and mobility on the storm-dominated Sable Island Bank, Scotian Shelf / Michael Z. Li, Edward L. King and Robert H. Prescott
  • Temporal variability, migration rates and preservation potential of subaqueous dune fields generated in the Agulhas Current on the southeast African continental shelf / Burghard W. Flemming and Alexander Bartholomä

  • Measurement of bedload transport in a coastal sea using repeat swath bathymetry surveys : assessing bedload formulae using sand dune migrations / Garret P. Duffy and John E. Hughes-Clarke
  • Analyzing bedforms mapped using multibeam sonar to determine regional bedload sediment transport patterns in the San Francisco Bay coastal system / Patrick L. Barnard ... [et al]
  • Sediment transport on continental shelves : storm bed formation and preservation in heterogeneous sediments / T.R. Keen ... [et al]
  • Tidal influence on the transport of suspended matter in the southwestern Yellow Sea at 6 ka / Katsuko Uehara and Yoshiki Saito
  • Origin, transport processes and distribution pattern of modern sediments in the Yellow Sea / Xuefa Shi ... [et al]
  • Seasonal and spatial variation in suspended sediment characteristics off the Changjiang estuary / Guoqing Wang ... [et al]
  • Factors controlling downward fluxes of particulate matter in glacier-contact and non-glacier contact settings in a subpolar fjord (Billefjorden, Svalbard) / Witold Szczuciński and Marek Zaja̜czkowski
  • On seabed disturbance, marine ecological succession and applications for environmental management : a physical sedimentological perspective / Peter T. Harris
  • Benthic habitat mapping from seabed acoustic surveys : do implicit assumptions hold? / Vladimir E. Kostylev.