Deficit of sand in a sediment transport model favors coral reef development in Brazil

Deficit of sand in a sediment transport model favors coral reef development in Brazil

This paper shows that the location of the shoreface bank reefs along the northeastern and eastern coasts of Brazil, in a first order approximation, seem to be controlled by the deficit of sediment in the coastal system. The sediment transport pattern defined by a numerical modeling of wave refractio...

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Main Authors: Abílio C.S.P. Bittencourt, Zelinda M.A.N. Leão, Ruy K.P. Kikuchi, José M.L. Dominguez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Ciências 2008-03-01
Series:Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Subjects:
deficit de sedimento
deriva litorânea
recifes de coral
nordeste do Brasil
sediment deficit
longshore drift
coral reefs
Northeast Brazil
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