CARIBBEAN COASTAL STUDIES

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)




Return to T & T Environment,

Return to Selection Page

or

Return to CCS Directory Contents --) modified: December 25, 1998