Spatial Variability of Sediment Transport Processes Over Intratidal and Subtidal Timescales Within a Fringing Coral Reef System
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2169-9003
DOI: 10.1002/2017jf004468