New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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Coastal oceanography and sedimentology in New Zealand, 1967-91

TERRY M. HUME ROBERT G. BELL

Water Quality Centre
DSIR Marine and Freshwater
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research P. O. Box 11-115, Hamilton, New Zealand

WILLEMP.deLANGE TERRY R. HEALY

Department of Earth Sciences
University of Waikato
Private Bag 3105, Hamilton 2001, New Zealand

D.MURRAY HICKS

Hydrology Centre
DSIR Marine and Freshwater
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
P. O. Box 22-037, Christchurch, New Zealand

R.M.KIRK

Department of Geography University of Canterbury Christchurch 1, New Zealand

Abstract This paper reviews research that has taken place on physical oceanography and sedimentology on New Zealand's estuaries and the inner shelf since c. 1967. It includes estuarine sedimentation, tidal inlets, beach morphodynamics, nearshore and inner shelf sedimentation, tides and coastal currents, numerical modelling, short-period waves, tsunamis, and storm surges. An extensive reference list covering both published and unpublished material is included. Formal teaching and research programmes dealing with coastal landforms and the processes that shape them were only introduced to New Zealand universities in 1964; the history of the New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research parallels and chronicles the development of physical coastal science in New Zealand, most of which has been accomplished in last 25 years.

Keywords estuary; sediments; tidal inlets; beaches; coastal erosion; inner shelf; tides; currents; waves; tsunamis; storm surge; numerical modelling

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 1992, Vol. 26:The Royal Society of New Zealand 1992
Received 7 November 1991; accepted 12 February 1992

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