Publications by authors named "Graziela Miot da Silva"

This study examines the role of sediment supply in controlling the formation and the spatial patterns of nebkha, numbers and sizes, present in foredunes fronting coastal dunefields of the arid northwest African and the Canary Islands coasts. Sediment supply is estimated qualitatively and quantitatively by various measures, and the number and size of nebkhas are obtained on a range of beach-dune systems. In the case of the Canary Islands, LiDAR data and orthophotos with high spatial resolution (0.

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Since the 1940's, rapid shoreline and dunefield changes have been ongoing at Salmon Hole, an embayment situated near Beachport in the SE of South Australia. Storm induced erosion has nearly removed the entire dunefield and created a lagoon confined by a calcarenite reef. This study examines the progress, dynamics and causes of the erosion to determine why it has been so severe, using historical aerial imagery, wave reanalyses data, Digital Surface Models (DSM's) from drone surveys and through the volumetric analysis of topographic profiles.

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Foredunes are formed by aeolian sand deposition in vegetation on the backshore of beaches. In this paper, the foredune mode (nebkha, discontinuous foredune, and continuous foredune), and transgressive dunefield development is studied along the Great Australian Bight (GAB), 2668 km of coastline. Orthophotos are used to classify the foredune mode, coastal landforms and the vegetation, through geographic information systems (GIS), with fieldwork support.

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