sediment flux

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• Sediment Profile Imagery — (SPI) is an underwater technique for photographing the interface between the seabed and the overlying water. The technique is used to measure or estimate biological, chemical, and physical processes occurring in the first few centimetres of… …   Wikipedia

• Sediment trap — Sediment traps are instruments used in oceanography to measure the quantity of sinking particulate organic (and inorganic) material in aquatic systems, usually oceans. This flux of material is the product of biological and ecological processes… …   Wikipedia

• Sediment — Sédiment Le processus de sédimentation est d abord une loi physique, liée à la pesanteur.Des phénomènes biologiques peuvent l accélérer ou le réduire, intervenant notamment dans les cycles écologiques et biogéochimiques …   Wikipédia en Français

• Sédiment — Le processus de sédimentation est d abord une loi physique, liée à la pesanteur. Des phénomènes biologiques peuvent l accélérer ou le réduire, intervenant notamment dans les cycles écologiques et biogéochimiques …   Wikipédia en Français

• Coastal sediment supply — is the transport of sediment to the beach environment by both fluvial and aeolian transport. While aeolian transport plays a role in the overall sedimentary budget for the coastal environment, it is paled in comparison to the fluvial supply which …   Wikipedia

• Oceanic trench — Oceanic crust is formed at an oceanic ridge, while the lithosphere is subducted back into the asthenosphere at trenches. The oceanic trenches are hemispheric scale long but narrow topographic depressions of the sea floor. They are also the… …   Wikipedia

• Downhill creep — Downhill creep, or commonly just creep, is the slow downward progression of rock and soil down a low grade slope; it can also refer to slow deformation of such materials as a result of prolonged pressure and stress. Creep may appear to an… …   Wikipedia

• Exner equation — IntroductionThe Exner equation is a statement of conservation of mass that applies to sediment in a fluvial system such as a river. [Paola, C., and V. R. Voller (2005), A generalized Exner equation for sediment mass balance, J. Geophys. Res. ,… …   Wikipedia

• Beach evolution — The shoreline is where the land meets the sea and it is continually changing. Over the long term, the water is eroding the land. Beaches represent a special case, in that they exist where sand accumulated from the same processes that strip away… …   Wikipedia

• Mekong River Basin Hydropower — Existing, under construction and planned hydropower dams in the Mekong River Basin. The estimated hydropower potential of the lower Mekong Basin (i.e. excluding China) is 30,000 MW,[1] while that of the upper Mekong Basin is 28,930 MW …   Wikipedia

• Molucca Sea Collision Zone — The Molucca Sea Collision Zone is postulated by paleogeologists to explain the tectonics of the area based on the Molucca Sea in Indonesia, and adjacent involved areas. Contents 1 Tectonics 2 Arc arc collision 3 Single collision zones …   Wikipedia