High Resolution Morphodynamics and Sedimentary Evolution of Estuaries [Paperback]

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.

Estuaries occur along many of the worlds 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.

1. Towards an understanding of the morphodynamics and sedimentary evolution of Estuaries; Jasper Knight and Duncan M. FitzGerald. 2. High-resolution geophysical investigations seaward of the Bann estuary, Northern Ireland coast; J. Lyn McDowell, Jasper Knight, and Rory Quinn. 3. A seabed classification approach based on multiple acoustic sensors in the Hudson River estuary; Frank O. Nitsche, Suzanne Carbotte, William Ryan, and Robin Bell. 4. Analysis of land-cover shifts in time and their significance; Ramon Gonzalez, Jo?o M. Alveirinho Dias, and ?scar Ferreira. 5. Comparison of the hydrodynamic character of three tidal inlet systems; Elizabethl3–