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Author : Feeney, T.D.; Amos, C.L.; and Luternauer, J.L.
Date : 1994
Title : Sediment pollution regime on the Northern Tidal Flats, Fraser River Delta, British Columbia, Canada
Publication : Coastal Zone Canada '94, 'Cooperation in the Coastal Zone': Conference Proceedings. Edited by: P.G. Wells and P.J. Ricketts. Coastal Zone Canada Association, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Issue : 3:
Page(s) : 1273-1287
Abstract
The sediment pollution regime in the the environmental sensitive Sturgeon Bank tidal flat is being studied to define the locations of erosion and deposition, and migration pathways of sediment and associated pollutants. Sediment erodibility was measured at 10 sites using an in-situ benthic annular flume. The data reveal that the surface cohesion increases seawards across the inner tidal flat. Current meter data reveal that currents are variable both spatially and temporally on the bank. In general, flow is bidirectional with flooding currents on the outer bank (seaward) having higher average velocities. Currents on the inner bank (shoreward) show no consistent orientation of peak velocities.
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