Topic:Sedimentology
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Sedimentology is the science of the production, composition, transport, and deposition of sediment. [1] The topic falls within Theme 5 and Theme 9.
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Types of sediment
Sediment budget
Sediment movement
- Coastal Hydrodynamics And Transport Processes
- Natural causes of coastal erosion
- Greek case studies: Sediment dynamics in the nearshore zone of Gouves (Heraklio, Crete) in relation to erosion (unpublished data 2006)
- Morphodynamics of accreting beaches: Sediment transport and sediment budgets (MAB)
Measurement
- Introduction, problems and approaches in sediment transport measurements
- Guidelines for selection of sediment transport samplers
- Principles, statistics and errors of measuring sediment transport
- Computation of sediment transport and presentation of results
- Measuring instruments for sediment transport
- Sediments: Manual of sediment transport measurements
Anthropogenic influences
- Port breakwaters and coastal erosion
- Artificial nourishment
- Protection against coastal erosion
- Dredging definition
- Detached shore parallel breakwaters
- Beach drainage
- Coastal morphodynamics and society
