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    Evolving Understanding of the Tay Estuary, Scotland

    Renowned as the site of the world’s most infamous railway accident, the so-called Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879 (Duck and Dow, 1994), the Tay Estuary of eastern Scotland is one of the most widely studied in the cou...

    R. W. Duck in High Resolution Morphodynamics and Sedimentary Evolution of Estuaries (2005)

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    Evaluation of the nutrient inputs to a coastal lagoon: the case of the Ria de Aveiro, Portugal

    The Ria de Aveiro estuary-coastal lagoon system of northern Portugal is estimated to currently receive mean annual influxes of total nitrogen (N) and total phosphorus (P) of c. 6118 t y−1 and 779 t y−1, respectiv...

    J. Figueiredo da Silva, R.W. Duck, T.S. Hopkins, M. Rodrigues in Hydrobiologia (2002)

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    Evaluation of the nutrient inputs to a coastal lagoon: the case of the Ria de Aveiro, Portugal

    The Ria de Aveiro estuary-coastal lagoon system of northern Portugal is estimated to currently receive mean annual influxes of total nitrogen (N) and total phosphorus (P) of c. 6118 t y−1 and 779 t y−1, respectiv...

    J. Figueiredo da Silva, R. W. Duck… in Nutrients and Eutrophication in Estuaries … (2002)

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    Comparative study of two largely infilled estuaries: The Eden Estuary (Scotland) and the Ria de Foz (Spain)

    Two small estuaries, the Eden Estuary of eastern Scotland and the Ria de Foz of north west Spain, are compared. The former was glaciated during the Pleistocene, the latter was not. These water bodies are macro...

    R. W. Duck, J. McManus, J. J. Diez in Netherland Journal of Aquatic Ecology (1995)

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    Comparison of scottish firths and Spanish rías

    A collaborative programme enables coastal problems in the Cantabrian rías of NW Spain to be compared with those of the firths of the Scottish east coast. Engineers and scientists have studied the problems of t...

    J. McManus, J. J. Diez, R. W. Duck… in Bulletin of the International Association … (1993)

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    Cohesive sediments in scottish freshwater lochs and reservoirs

    The cohesive nature of sediments coating the floors of Scottish freshwater lochs and reservoirs is illustrated through microscopic observations, settling velocity experiments, geophysical remote sensing, and r...

    R. W. Duck, J. McManus in Geo-Marine Letters (1991)

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    Internal seiches and subaqueous landforms in lacustrine cohesive sediments

    The introduction of sidescan sonar to surveying the floors of Scottish Lochs has permitted recognition of low-relief blister-like slides on the slopes of major basins. Here we report that these features occur ...

    J. McManus, R. W. Duck in Nature (1988)