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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Academia Brasileira de Ciências
2008-03-01
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| Series: | Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652008000100015 |