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The Swedish Coastal Zone Project: Sediment Types and Morphometry

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Sediments and Water Interactions

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This contribution emanates from a major Swedish research project: The Coastal Zone—Scientific Criteria for Planners. The ultimate goal of the project is to establish simple yet general scientific methods and criteria for coastal planning, management, and control. In this contribution, empiric data from nine type areas have been used to describe coastal sediments and relationships between sediments, bottom dynamics, and coastal morphometry. The type of coast, defined by a set of key morphometric parameters, regulates which factors determine the prevailing bottom dynamics (erosion, transportation, and accumulation). It is suggested that areas of accumulation (where continuous deposition of fine materials predominates) and areas of transportation and erosion (in which there may be transient deposition) can be linked to and determined from simple morphometric parameters (exposure, mean slope, and hypsographic curve).

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  1. National Water Research Institute, Canada Centre for Inland Waters (CCIW), L7R 4A6, Burlington, Ontario, Canada

    Peter G. Sly

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Håkanson, L. (1986). The Swedish Coastal Zone Project: Sediment Types and Morphometry. In: Sly, P.G. (eds) Sediments and Water Interactions. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4932-0_4

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