Sediment Fluxes in Coastal Areas [Hardcover]

This book presents a detailed analysis and synthesis of the processes affecting sediments fluxes from watershed to worldwide coastal systems. The volume provides a comprehensive overview and constitutes a systematic description of the response of coastal systems to global and local changes, like climate change, sea level, land use and land cover change. The case studies cover a sequence of coastal environments such as lagoons, bays, estuaries, deltas and beaches.

Sediment Fluxes in Coastal Areas is designed for researchers, professionals and for course-use in hydrology, oceanography, geography, geology, geomorphology and environmental science.

Preface.- Part I: Sediment Fluxes Changes Link to Climatic Change during Holocene.- The Turritella Layer: a Potentiel Proxy of a Drastic Holocene Environmental Change on the Northeast Atlantic Coast.- The Influence of Recent Deglaciation and Associated Sediment Flux on the Functioning of Polar Coastal Zone  Northern Petuniabukta, Svalbard.- Geomorphic Changes in the Rh?ne Delta during the LIA: Input from the Analysis of Ancient Maps.- Part II: Studies CAS about Sediment Fluxes in Three Different Climatic Zones (Wet tropical, Semi-arid, Temperate) during Anthropocene.- Mud and Sand Flux in a Context of Sediment Heterogeneity on the Mud-dominated Coast of French Guiana.- The Coastal Sediment Provenance and their Distribution in the Mediterranean Beaches of NW Morocco.- The Hydro-sedimentary System of the Haute-Normandy Coast: Synthesis.- Part III: The Use of Modelling Approaches of Sediment Fluxes at a Higher Spatial and Temporal Scale.- Sediment Exchange Through the Inlets of the Venice Lagoon.- Tidal Inlet Dynamics and Relocation in Response to Artificial Breaching.- Sediment Transport Formulae for Coastal Morphodynamic Simulation: Calculated Sediment Flux against in situ Data.- Part IV: Extremes Events and Sediment Fluxes: The Case of Tsunamis.- Tsunamis: Impl,