A book of this type is not only the result of the efforts of its authors and editor, but also in large measure of various types of input from many other sources. These include many researchers whose results have been published elsewhere, numerous colleagues and students who are, or have been, associated with the authors, and the many agencies who have supported the authors' research efforts. In…
There is a vast literature on the topic of sediment transport, and, generaily, the contributions to it fall into three categories: descriptive marine geological, process-oriented oceanographic, and empirical engineering. I admit this is a rather sweeping generalization but so often the engineering literature starts with dimensional reasoning and then obtains results from experiments to produce …