Marine Sediment Transport and Environmental Management

New York: Wiley, 1976. Blue cloth quarto; xv, 602 pages: illustrations; 29 cm Very good (+); private library stamp, adhesive residue to front leaf; pages crisp and clean. Binding very tight. No jacket. . hardcover.

Ex-library (private) Contents: Introduction / D.J.P. Swift and D.J. Stanley -- Introduction to the physical oceanography and fluid dynamics of continental margins / C.N.K. Mooers -- Some simple mechanisms for steady shelf circulation / A. Leetmaa -- Wind-driven currents on the continental margin / C.N.K. Mooers -- Tidal currents / H.O. Mofield -- Wave climate of the continental margin: elements of its mathematical description / O.S. Madsen -- Boundary layer flow under steady unidirectional currents / P.D. Komar -- The transport of cohesionless sediments on continental shelves / P.D. Komar -- Suspended sediment transport and mud deposition on continental shelves / D.E. Drake -- Substrate response to hydraulic process: grain-size frequency distributions and bedforms / D.J.P. Swift and J.C. Ludwick -- Subaqueous sediment transport and deposition by sediment gravity flows / G.V. Middleton and M.A. Hampton -- Intracoastal sedimentation / H.R. Wanless -- Nearshore currents and sediment transport, and the resulting beach / P.D. Komar -- Coastal sedimentation; Continental shelf sedimentation / D.J.P. Swift -- Shelf-break processes and sedimentation / J.B. Southard and D.J. Stanley -- Sedimentation in canyon, slope and base-of-slope environments / G. Kelling and D.J. Stanley -- Suspended sediment transport at the shelfbreak and over the outer margin / J.W. Pierce -- Chemistry and continental margin sedimentation / P.G. Hatcher and D.A. Segar -- Sedimentation and food resources: animal-sediment relationships / S.B. Saila -- Sedimentation and coastal engineering: beaches and harbors / D.B. Duane -- Sedimentation and ocean engineering: structures / H.D. Palmer -- Sedimentation and ocean engineering: placer mineral resources / D.B. Duane -- Sedimentation and ocean engineering: ocean dumping / C.G. Hard and H.D. Palmer -- Perspectives of shelf sedimentology / K.O. Emery. Marine sediments. Sediment transport. Environmental management. "A Wiley-Interscience publication."/ "Outgrowth of lectures presented at a short course, 'The New concepts of continental margin sedimentation, II', sponsored by the American Geological Institute ... convened at Key Biscayne, Florida, on November 15 to 17, 1974."