Open AccessTRACER TESTS IN THE MIDDLE NORTH SEA
Author(s) -
Eivind Bratteland,
Per Bruun
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
proceedings of conference on coastal engineering/proceedings of ... conference on coastal engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2156-1028
pISSN - 0589-087X
DOI - 10.9753/icce.v14.56
Subject(s) - estuary , oceanography , submarine pipeline , sediment , geology , tracer , sediment transport , tracing , north sea , hydrology (agriculture) , environmental science , geomorphology , geotechnical engineering , nuclear physics , physics , computer science , operating system
Tracing of sediment transport has so far mostly been concentrated in rivers and particularly in estuaries and in shallow coastal waters with main interest on navigational, erosional and some pollutionary aspects. With the ever increasing oil activites in the North Sea, knowledge on bottom sediment movements at large water depths is becoming more and more important. Little tracing has been undertaken on the offshore sea bottom at depths exceeding 20 - 30 meters.