Modeling Sediment Erosion and Redistribution in Fine-Grained Shelf Environments

Abstract

My long-term goal within the EuroSTRATAFORM program is to increase our ability to predict sediment transport in fine-grained regions of the continental shelf. Field work and the development and application of models during STRATAFORM increased our understanding of these processes and improved our ability to predict them. EuroSTRATAFORM offers several fine-grained shelf sites with characteristics (forcing, margin configuration) that contrast with the Eel shelf STRATAFORM study area. Testing our conceptual and numerical sediment transport models at these sites is an important goal of the EuroSTRATAFORM shelf process studies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2002
Accession Number
ADA627669

Entities

People

  • Patricia Wiberg

Organizations

  • University of Virginia

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Continental Shelves
  • Contrast
  • Ecology
  • Environment
  • Geological Phenomena
  • Grain Size
  • Information Operations
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Sedimentation
  • Sediments
  • Shear Stresses
  • Stresses
  • Suspended Sediments
  • Transport Ships
  • Turbidity

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Geotechnical Engineering.