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The successful use of tracer sand to determine sediment transport rates relies on the two basic premises that the tracer behaves exactly in the same way as the native sand and that the motion of the tracer centroid can be determined. The centroid velocity provides an estimate of the transport velocity, which when multiplied by the thickness of the moving sand, yields the transport rate.
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White, T.E., Inman, D.L. (1989). Application of Tracer Theory to NSTS Experiments. In: Seymour, R.J. (eds) Nearshore Sediment Transport. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2531-2_16
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