Note on sediment sorting in a sandy bed under standing water waves |
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| Authors: | Blake J Landry Matthew J Hancock Chiang C Mei |
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| Institution: | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, 02139, USA |
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| Abstract: | We present new quantitative data on the sorting of sediments on a sandy seabed under standing waves. Starting from a flat bed composed of a homogeneous mixture of a coarse and a fine sand with mean diameters 0.11 and 0.21 mm, we observed simultaneous ripple and sand bar formation and sand sorting on the seabed. Over days of wave action, sand bars formed with crests beneath the surface wave nodes and flat plateaus flanked by mounds beneath the antinodes. Bar crests were composed of sand coarser on average than 0.21 mm, while the flat plateaus were covered by sand finer on average than 0.11 mm. Comparison with two experiments involving sand beds of more homogeneous size distributions shows that the mounds are characteristic of the motion of fine suspensions. |
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| Keywords: | Sand sorting Surface waves Ripples Sand bars |
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