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Sediment movements

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Hydraulic Behaviour of Estuaries

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Many of the world’s major cities have grown to their present size because they are centred around a large navigable tidal river or estuary. Failure to preserve adequate navigation channels has often caused a city to decline in importance or even be abandoned altogether. For example, the city of Chester is situated at the head of the Dee Estuary in England and was a major port in Roman times, but is today hardly accessible to small pleasure craft owing to the progressive siltation of the estuary channels. Engineering schemes concerned with tidal rivers and estuaries must, therefore, be carefully investigated in order to avoid disastrous changes in the size and location of port approach channels.

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McDowell, D.M., O’Connor, B.A. (1977). Sediment movements. In: Hydraulic Behaviour of Estuaries. Civil Engineering Hydraulics Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01118-6_4

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