Sediments, Morphology and Sedimentary Processes on Continental Shelves: Advances in technologies, research and applications (Special Publication 44 of the IAS) [NOOK Book]

Part 1: Sediments and morphology in shelf and coastal systems

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, T. Schoolmeester, D. Orange, A. Calafat, J. Fabres, E. Grossman, M. Field, T. Lorenson, M. Levey and M. Sansoucy

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 off the East Frisian barrier-island coast, southern North Sea: climatic controls and preservation potential
Chang Soo Son, Burghard W. Flemming and Tae Soo Chang

Part 2: Sediment transport processes, sedimentation and modelling

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 migration
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, Li Erikson, David M. Rubin, Pete Dartnell and Rikk G. Kvitek

Sediment transport on continental shelves: storm bed formation and preservation in heterogeneous sediments
T. R. Keen, R. L. Slingerland, S. J. Bentley, Y. Furukawa, W. J. Teague and J. D. Dykes

Tidal influence on the transport of suspended matter in the southwestern Yellow Sea at 6 ka
Katsuto Uehara and Yoshiki Saito

Origin, transport processes and distribution pattern of modern sediments in the Yellow Sea
Xuefa Shi, Yanguang Liu, Zhihua Chen, Jianwei Wei, Sulan Ge, Kunshan Wang, Guoqing Wang, Shouye Yang, Shuqing Qiao, Deling Cai, Zhenbo Cheng, Wenrui Bu and Hi-Ii Yi

Seasonal and spatial variation in suspended sediment characteristics off the Changjiang estuary
Guoqing Wang, Xuefa Shi, Yanguang Liu, Xisheng Fang and Gang Yang

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 Zajączkowski

Part 3: Application and management

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

List of Reviewers

Index