Open AccessTHE COASTLINE OF RIVER-DELTAS
Author(s) -
W.H. Bakker,
T. Edelman
Publication year - 1964
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.v9.13
Subject(s) - river delta , geology , delta , sediment , hydrology (agriculture) , oceanography , geomorphology , geotechnical engineering , engineering , aerospace engineering
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the shape of the coastline of a river delta on a coast, along which sediment is transported by waves only. In order to make the problem suitable to a mathematical treatment it is necessary to simplify to a large extend the processes occurring in nature.