Morphodynamics of Mediterranean mixed sand and gravel coasts / Miguel Ortega-Sánchez, Rafael J. Bergillos, Alejandro López-Ruiz, Miguel A. Losada.
Ortega-Sánchez, Miguel, author.; Bergillos, Rafael J., author.; López-Ruiz, Alejandro, author.; Losada, Miguel A., author.
2017
GB436.M43
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Title Morphodynamics of Mediterranean mixed sand and gravel coasts / Miguel Ortega-Sánchez, Rafael J. Bergillos, Alejandro López-Ruiz, Miguel A. Losada.
ISBN 9783319524405 (electronic book)
3319524402 (electronic book)
9783319524399
3319524399
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52440-5
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-52440-5 doi
Call Number GB436.M43
Dewey Decimal Classification 551.41
Summary This book describes recent advances in the morphodynamics of mixed sand and gravel Mediterranean coasts, and provides updates and new methods for their study and management. It assesses how the differences in the geomorphic setting, in comparison with traditional sandy beaches, result in distinctive physical processes governing the dynamics of these coasts. Further, on the basis of field measurements, theoretical analysis and numerical modeling carried out at two study sites in southern Spain over the last 15 years, the book studies, analyzes and compares these physical processes and mechanisms. It also shows that the narrow and complex bathymetries and inner shelves modify the wave propagation patterns and hence, the longshore sediment transport gradients along the coast. Given the correlation between the changes in these gradients and the shoreline evolution over time, it identifies the complexity of the inner shelf bathymetries as the main driver of coastal changes and describes these processes in detail using, in the plan view, the inter-annual evolution of unaltered and “altered by human” beaches. Lastly, the book details how the generation and subsequent overlapping of berms across the beach profile are responsible for the sediment variability at depth and cross-shore, and concludes that the total run-up (including the water-level) is a more influential variable than wave height in the erosional/depositional response of these beaches.
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Added Author Ortega-Sánchez, Miguel, author.
Bergillos, Rafael J., author.
López-Ruiz, Alejandro, author.
Losada, Miguel A., author.
Series SpringerBriefs in earth sciences.
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Study sites
Chapter 3. Importance of nearshore waves on mixed sand and gravel coasts
Chapter 4. Littoral drift and coastline evolution on mixed sand and gravel coasts
Chapter 5. Morpho-sedimentary dynamics of mixed sand and gravel coasts.

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