| The Influence of Seabed Slope and Coriolis Effects on the Development of Sandbanks near Headlands. (2006) | |||||||||
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| State-of-the-art coastal area models are used to show the key processes that form and maintain sandbanks, with emphasis on the influence of seabed and headland geometry, upwelling and planetary vorticity. The study has important commercial applications in the licensing of aggregate abstraction and in coastal defence strategy. It also identifies an important flaw in one of the commercial computer packages (Delft-3D). Headland sandbanks are common in UK coastal waters, protecting the coast from wave attack and as a valuable resources for marine aggregates and fisheries. Co-authors are from industry, UCL Earth Sciences, and the PhD student who undertook the work. | |||||||||
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