The Spatial Variability of Ridge and Runnel Beach Morphology Due to Beach Placer Mining along the Vembar – Kallar Coast, India

N. Chandrasekar, Sakthivel Saravanan, M. Rajamanickam, Victor Rajamanickam

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beach morphology, ridge & runnel, 3D model, sediments volume estimation

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/b.2014.69.2.53
Date of publication: 2015-05-25 18:43:10
Date of submission: 2015-05-25 17:33:18


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