T&T- Coastal Erosion at Columbus Bay

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

COASTAL EROSION AT COLUMBUS BAY, TRINIDAD

Following are the pages of B.L. Oostdam's article entitled:
"Coastal regression and transgression at the junction of Serpent's Mouth and
the Gulf of Paria, Trinidad.",
published in : Proc. 10th Carib.Geol.Confer., Cartagena, Colombia, p. 318-329

ABSTRACT (228KB)

abstract; introduction (258KB)

oceanograph; sediments; bathymetric map (297KB)

sediments; airphoto of Icacos Point (268KB)

sediments; currents; airphoto of Columbus Bay coast (248KB)

currents; grainsize parameter plots: mean, sorting, % fines (272KB)

currents; maps of bottom- and surface currents (267KB)

sediment transport; table of data about currents (273KB)

erosion; table of erosion and accretion data (307KB)

coastal changes near Corral Point; photograph of fallen palmtrees (246KB)

map of coastal changes near Corral Pt, 1906-1982; summary (272KB)

bathymetric profile showing drowned stacks off Three Sisters (259KB)

references; photograph of bottom sediments stirred up by pirogues (196KB)

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