An examination of empirical stability relationships for UK estuaries
An examination of empirical stability relationships for UK estuaries
The international data on tidal prism and cross-sectional area of tidal inlets and estuaries are examined as a basis for exploring the variability in the comparable UK data. The data are then used to evaluate the existing classification of estuary types; to present a number of relationships between the key bulk parameters of estuary volume, plan area, and cross-sectional area; and to test some theoretically derived relationships. The results suggest that the degree of Holocene sedimentation, and hence Holocene development, may explain much of the variability seen in the data, and this is not, as yet, fully accounted for in the theoretical relationships
tidal inlet, tidal prism, geomorphology, regime relationships
1042-1053
Townend, Ian
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September 2005
Townend, Ian
67123499-b75c-4cc1-b071-f4e91be8afa3
Townend, Ian
(2005)
An examination of empirical stability relationships for UK estuaries.
Journal of Coastal Research, 5, .
(doi:10.2112/03-0066R.1).
Abstract
The international data on tidal prism and cross-sectional area of tidal inlets and estuaries are examined as a basis for exploring the variability in the comparable UK data. The data are then used to evaluate the existing classification of estuary types; to present a number of relationships between the key bulk parameters of estuary volume, plan area, and cross-sectional area; and to test some theoretically derived relationships. The results suggest that the degree of Holocene sedimentation, and hence Holocene development, may explain much of the variability seen in the data, and this is not, as yet, fully accounted for in the theoretical relationships
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Published date: September 2005
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tidal inlet, tidal prism, geomorphology, regime relationships
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/53102
ISSN: 0749-0208
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