DREDGING

A wide-ranging review which discusses developments in dredging technology and their application in the field. It covers a history of dredging; dredging and siltation--cause and effect; the behaviour of the dredged area of Walney Channel; the investigation of spoil movement in the Firth of Forth using radioactive tracers; the use of tracers to determine infill rates in projected dredged channels; the development of The River Tees--deepening, widening, and extension of the navigable channel; recent research developments in hydraulic dredging; reclamation dredging and instrumentation; towards automation in inshore hydrographic surveying.

• Corporate Authors:

  Thomas Telford Limited

  London,   United Kingdom 
• Publication Date: 1968

Media Info

• Pagination: 124 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automation; Channels (Waterways); Dredging; Hydrographic surveying; Maintenance; Radioactive materials; Radioisotopes; Silting; Tracers (Chemistry)
• Old TRIS Terms: Channel maintenance; Hydrographic surveys; Radioactive tracers
• Subject Areas: Hydraulics and Hydrology; Maintenance and Preservation; Marine Transportation; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00323310
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 6 1981 12:00AM