Evaluation of Sediment Dynamics and the Mobility of Heavy Minerals on a Linear Sand Shoal

• Main Authors: Boon, John D., Berquist, Jr., C. R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Journal of Coastal Research 2012
• Subjects: Geoscience; Geography; Ocean Science; Oceanography; Marine Science; Coastal Geology; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Sand transport; sediment resuspension; selective entrainment; Smith Island
• Online Access: http://journals.fcla.edu/jcr/article/view/78623

Two instrumented tripoda were deployed in summer and fall, 1987, at Smith Island Shoal a coast-parallel sand ridge near the 10-meter depth contour just north of the Chesapeake Bay entrance on the Virginia inner shelf. Previous studies of the shoal have noted a high abundance of heavy minerals (up to...