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Book Wave Forced Sediment Erosion and Resuspension in the Yellow River Delta

Download or read book Wave Forced Sediment Erosion and Resuspension in the Yellow River Delta written by Yonggang Jia and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the phenomenon of sediment erosion and resuspension in the Yellow River delta, China, which is a vital issue involved in understanding the sediment transport processes in estuarine and coastal environments, and how these contribute to the nature and distribution of geohazards in the subaqueous Yellow River delta and Bohai Sea. The most important sections of this book will be the detailed physical mechanisms and theoretical models of sediment erosion and resuspension problem fully considering the wave-induced seabed dynamic response to waves, which are particularly useful for postgraduate students and junior researchers entering the discipline of estuary and coastal sedimentation, marine geotechnical engineering, estuary and coastal engineering, harbor and waterway engineering and coastal environmental protection. This book can also serve as a textbook for advanced graduate students of Marine Engineering Geology and Estuarine Sediment Dynamics.

Book Wave Forced Sediment Erosion and Resuspension in the Yellow River Delta

Download or read book Wave Forced Sediment Erosion and Resuspension in the Yellow River Delta written by YONGGANG. JIA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wave forced Sediment Erosion and Resuspension in the Yellow River Delta

Download or read book Wave forced Sediment Erosion and Resuspension in the Yellow River Delta written by 贾永刚 and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sediment dynamics and geohazards in estuaries and deltas

Download or read book Sediment dynamics and geohazards in estuaries and deltas written by Xiaolei Liu and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-02-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Asian and Pacific Coasts

Download or read book Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Asian and Pacific Coasts written by Yoshimitsu Tajima and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Coastal and Estuarine Sediment Dynamics

Download or read book Coastal and Estuarine Sediment Dynamics written by Keith R. Dyer and published by . This book was released on 1986-05-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the movement of mud, sand, and gravel on the continental shelf in the nearshore zone, on beaches, and in estuaries. A multi-disciplinary treatment integrating marine geology, oceanography, and engineering. Presents concepts in engineering sediment distribution patterns that improve the prediction of erosion and deposition rates. Reviews background material as well as the results of recent research.

Book Sediment Flux Through the Yellow River Sediment Routing System

Download or read book Sediment Flux Through the Yellow River Sediment Routing System written by Changxing Shi and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Sediment Flux Through the Yellow River Sediment Routing System" by Changxing, Shi, 師長興, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract of thesis entitled 'Sediment Flux through the Yellow River Sediment Routing System' Submitted by SHI Changxing for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at The University of Hong Kong in August 2002 Sediment fluxes through riverine sediment routing systems are one of the main causes for many environmental problems and disasters, to which the effective solutions should be based on quantification of the sediment fluxes and clarification of related mechanisms. This study probed into the sediment fluxes through one of the largest riverine sediment routing systems in the world, the Yellow River sediment routing system, in a spatial detail of four basic functional cells and on time scales of 0 4 10 -10 years. Investigation of the sediment fluxes was carried out through construction of sediment budgets of the system mainly based on information derived from deposits in the sinks and records of sediment load, and through analyzing some important mechanisms for the characteristics of the constructed sediment fluxes in the system. The dry bulk densities of deposits in various depositional environments in the system were investigated for acquiring reliable sediment budgets from deposits. The sediment budget for about 10 years when the Diaokouhe lobe of the Yellow River delta was formed was 14.510 tones of sediment income distributed into the lower Yellow River, the delta, and the sea by proportions of 33%, 49%, and 18%, respectively. The high proportion of sediment deposition in the delta was associated with the high sediment-sequestering efficiency of the ephemeral sediment-charged hyperpycnal underflows off the river mouth and floods over the delta plain because these two processes tend to arrest all the incoming fine as well as coarse particles. A positive relation exists between the proportion of sediment deposited in the deltaic lobe and sediment discharge. The amount of sediment escaping from the delta displays an exponentially decreasing trend with the distance from the delta front. 11 The sediment budget for the period from 1855 to 1968 was 1.87810 tons of sediment income deposited in the lower reaches and the river delta by proportions of 62% and 32%, respectively. The larger proportion of sediment deposition in the lower reaches was associated with the nonexistence of dykes during the period from 1855 to 1875 and the frequent dyke breaching before 1949. It was found that the percentages of sediment deposition in the delta on two time scales are different because the expanding delta captures the sediments, which were deposited in front of the delta in the earlier periods. The total sediment yield from the source in the Holocene was found to be about 12 810 tons, which was the total mass of sediments accumulated in all the sinks of the system. Using radiocarbon dates in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain, it was revealed 9 that the annual sediment yield on a 2500-year average increased from 0.6810 tons 9 in the first quarter to 1.0110 tons in the last quarter of the Holocene. Furthermore, it was disclosed that human activities enlarged the sediment yield by a total of about 12 0.310 tons over the past 2500 years and were the cause for the difference between 9 the measured sediment yield of 1.610 t/yr and the predicted natural sediment yield 9 of 0.9510 t/yr in the middle of the last century. DOI: 10.5353/th_b2985194 Subjects:

Book Selected Water Resources Abstracts

Download or read book Selected Water Resources Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cohesive Sediments

Download or read book Cohesive Sediments written by Neville Burt and published by . This book was released on 1997-04-03 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an alarming tendency today to assume that something calculated by a computer must be correct, yet the phrase 'garbage in, garbage out' (gigo) is possibly nowhere more (generally) appropriate than in computer modelling of cohesive sediment behaviour. The behaviour of 'mud' is highly complex and one only needs to look at a sample under a microscope to see why - the variety of particle shapes, not to mention the presence of living organisms, make it a substance with properties virtually unique to its situation which even change with time. For many years most researchers tended to avoid it, preferring to study sand and gravel, but a dedicated few tackled it and found a forum for discussing their work in the first Cohesive Sediments Workshop in Florida in 1980. The workshop met about every three years resulting in publication of some of the most definitive papers on the subject. By 1994 it was time to recognise the extensive research being carried on in Europe by holding the workshop in that region. Intercoh '94 (the 4th Nearshore and Estuarine Cohesive Sediment Transport Conference) drew together about 100 of the world's leading researchers in the field. The resulting papers, presented in this volume, truly represent the definitive state of the art on the measurement and modelling of mud properties today.

Book Porous Models for Wave seabed Interactions

Download or read book Porous Models for Wave seabed Interactions written by Dong-Sheng Jeng and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Porous Models for Wave-seabed Interactions" discusses the Phenomenon of wave-seabed interactions, which is a vital issue for coastal and geotechnical engineers involved in the design of foundations for marine structures such as pipelines, breakwaters, platforms, etc. The most important sections of this book will be the fully detailed theoretical models of wave-seabed interaction problem, which are particularly useful for postgraduate students and junior researchers entering the discipline of marine geotechnics and offshore engineering. This book also converts the research outcomes of theoretical studies to engineering applications that will provide front-line engineers with practical and effective tools in the assessment of seabed instability in engineering design. Prof. Dong-Sheng Jeng works at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.

Book Advances in River Sediment Research

Download or read book Advances in River Sediment Research written by Shoji Fukuoka and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sediments, which constitute the surface of the Earth, start their journey to rivers with the energy obtained from rainfalls, fl oods and other natural processes. Due to transport of sediments, rivers develop with various appearances and functions, and play a crucial role in the activities of human beings and the life cycles of other species. River

Book Estuarine and Coastal Fine Sediment Dynamics

Download or read book Estuarine and Coastal Fine Sediment Dynamics written by Jerome Maa and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the product of the International Conference on Cohesive Sediment Transport (INTERCOH 2003) held at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, U.S.A., during October 1-4, 2003. The topics included in this monograph range from basic research on cohesive sediment dynamics to practical applications. Also included with this book is a database that contains all experimental results as well as a comparison of numerical simulation results supported by the COSINUS project.* Provides fundamental knowledge of the dynamics of cohesive sediments* Presents practical applications of new finds on sedimentary processes* Includes valuable ready-for-use data

Book Sea Level Rise for the Coasts of California  Oregon  and Washington

Download or read book Sea Level Rise for the Coasts of California Oregon and Washington written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tide gauges show that global sea level has risen about 7 inches during the 20th century, and recent satellite data show that the rate of sea-level rise is accelerating. As Earth warms, sea levels are rising mainly because ocean water expands as it warms; and water from melting glaciers and ice sheets is flowing into the ocean. Sea-level rise poses enormous risks to the valuable infrastructure, development, and wetlands that line much of the 1,600 mile shoreline of California, Oregon, and Washington. As those states seek to incorporate projections of sea-level rise into coastal planning, they asked the National Research Council to make independent projections of sea-level rise along their coasts for the years 2030, 2050, and 2100, taking into account regional factors that affect sea level. Sea-Level Rise for the Coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington: Past, Present, and Future explains that sea level along the U.S. west coast is affected by a number of factors. These include: climate patterns such as the El Niño, effects from the melting of modern and ancient ice sheets, and geologic processes, such as plate tectonics. Regional projections for California, Oregon, and Washington show a sharp distinction at Cape Mendocino in northern California. South of that point, sea-level rise is expected to be very close to global projections. However, projections are lower north of Cape Mendocino because the land is being pushed upward as the ocean plate moves under the continental plate along the Cascadia Subduction Zone. However, an earthquake magnitude 8 or larger, which occurs in the region every few hundred to 1,000 years, would cause the land to drop and sea level to suddenly rise.

Book The Mechanics of Scour in the Marine Environment

Download or read book The Mechanics of Scour in the Marine Environment written by B. Mutlu Sumer and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treats the subject of local sour around different kinds of marine structures, exposed to waves and/or currents.

Book Drawing Louisiana s New Map

    Book Details:
  • Author : National Research Council
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 2006-02-23
  • ISBN : 0309164907
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Drawing Louisiana s New Map written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past 50 years, coastal Louisiana has suffered catastrophic land loss due to both natural and human causes. This loss has increased storm vulnerability and amplified risks to lives, property, and economies-a fact underscored by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Drawing Louisiana's New Map reviews a restoration plan proposed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the State of Louisiana, finding that, although the individual projects in the study are scientifically sound, there should be more and larger scale projects that provide a comprehensive approach to addressing land loss over such a large area. More importantly, the study should be guided by a detailed map of the expected future landscape of coastal Louisiana that is developed from agreed upon goals for the region and the nation.