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Observations of tidal current velocities, their structure throughout the water column and associated sediment distribution patterns were made in 1972 and 1980. The results demonstrated: 1. an increase in the tidal current speeds and an enhancement in the longshore component; 2. a trend toward a more logarithmic velocity distribution in the water column; and 3. a general increase in grain size, but the development of alower mud flat. Such significant changes could relate to the construction of an embankment, as part of a land reclamation scheme, or to the reversion to a longer-term period of erosion over this region of intertidal flat.
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Van Smirren, J., Collins, M.B. Short-term changes in sedimentological and hydrographic characteristics over a sandy intertidal zone, the Wash, U. K.. Geo-Marine Letters 2, 55–60 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02462800
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