Field Measurements of Sediment Transport Processes in Support of the STRATAFORM Shelf Dynamics Study: Progress Report for 1995-1997
Field Measurements of Sediment Transport Processes in Support of the STRATAFORM Shelf Dynamics Study: Progress Report for 1995-1997

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Published: 1997

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The global objective of the VIMS involvement in the STRATAFORM program continues to be to improve understanding of the spatially and temporally varying mechanisms that suspend, transport, and deposit sediment on the continental shelf in the vicinity of the mouth of the Eel River specifically and on continental shelves generally. Common objectives of the 1995-1996 and 1996-1997 field campaigns included: (a) to characterize the nature and spatial variability of bed roughness by means of side-scan sonar surveys; and (b) to obtain estimates of time-varying bed stresses over contrasting bottom types at two sites and to evaluate sediment resuspension in response to those stresses by means of bottom boundary layer tripod deployments. Field activities in 1996-1997 were also aimed at supporting the team efforts of the Eel River Plume Study.

Field Measurements of Sediment Transport Processes in STRATAFORM: Extended Duration Observations
Field Measurements of Sediment Transport Processes in STRATAFORM: Extended Duration Observations

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Published: 1998

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The long-term goal of the sediment dynamics component of STRATAFORM is to link sediment transport processes on the continental shelf and slope to the formation and preservation of event beds in sediment deposits. Our objective is to maintain monitoring instrumentation on the shelf and slope to address the long-term dispersal of sediment in the along- and across-shelf directions. In particular, we are investigating the questions of: a) along- and across- shelf variability of sediment flux on the continental shelf, b) temporal variability of sediment flux on the continental shelf, c) existence and dynamics of fluid mud on temperate shelves, and d) delivery of suspended sediment to the continental slope and the formation of bottom and intermediate nepheloid layers.

Shelf Sediment Transport: Process and Pattern
Shelf Sediment Transport: Process and Pattern

Author: Donald J. P. Swift

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Published: 1973

Total Pages: 684

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This volume contains papers presented in a symposium on Shelf Sediment Transport conducted at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America held in Washington, D.C., November 1971.