Evaluation of Sediment Dynamics and the Mobility of Heavy Minerals on a Linear Sand Shoal
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...
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Journal of Coastal Research
2012
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Online Access: | http://journals.fcla.edu/jcr/article/view/78623 |