Sediment Dynamics on the West Florida Inner Continental Shelf

Abstract

Most inner continental shelves are dynamic environments, subject to current flows on a variety of temporal and spatial scales that are relevent to processes of mine scour and burial. We have initiated a project to quantify the response of a non-cohesive seabed to these flows on spatial scales of 10-2 to 104 m and on temporal scales of seconds to years by using a combination of acoustic remote sensing and in situ instrumentation. These studies are undertaken in support of the ONR Mine Scour and Burial Study Site west of Indian Rocks Beach (IRB), on the west-central Florida coast.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2002
Accession Number
ADA627764

Entities

People

  • Albert Hine
  • Clifford Merz
  • David Naar
  • Peter Howd
  • Stanley Locker

Organizations

  • University of South Florida

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Continental Shelves
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Dynamics
  • Environment
  • Geology
  • Instrumentation
  • Marine Geology
  • Measurement
  • Oceanography
  • Remote Sensing
  • Ridges
  • Sedimentation
  • Sediments
  • Side Looking Sonar
  • Sonar

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering