Estuaries of South America

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

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2. What Do We Know About the Geomorphology and Physical Oceanography of South American Estuaries?

   • Gerardo M. E. Perillo, M. Cintia Piccolo, Mario Pino-Quivira

   Pages 1-13

3. The Maracaibo System: A Physical Profile

   • Gilberto Rodríguez

   Pages 15-34

4. Coastal Lagoons of Southeastern Brazil: Physical and Biogeochemical Characteristics

   • Bastiaan Knoppers, Björn Kjerfve

   Pages 35-66

5. Nutrients and Suspended Matter Behaviour in the Patos Lagoon Estuary (Brazil)

   • Luis Felipe Niencheski, Maria da Graça Baumgarten, Gilberto Fillmann, Herbert L. Windom

   Pages 67-81

6. Hydrographical Characteristics of the Estuarine Area of Patos Lagoon (30°S, Brazil)

   • Osmar O. Möller Jr., Patrice Castaing

   Pages 83-100

7. The Argentina Estuaries: A Review

   • M. Cintia Piccolo, Gerardo M. E. Perillo

   Pages 101-132

8. Hydrography and Sediment Transport Characteristics of the Río de la Plata: A Review

   • Jorge López Laborde, Gustavo J. Nagy

   Pages 133-159

9. Physical Characteristics and Processes of the Río de la Plata Estuary

   • Mariana B. Framiñan, María P. Etala, Eduardo M. Acha, Raúl A. Guerrero, Carlos A. Lasta, Otis B. Brown

   Pages 161-194

10. Geomorphological and Physical Characteristics of the Bahía Blanca Estuary, Argentina

    • Gerardo M. E. Perillo, M. Cintia Piccolo

    Pages 195-216

11. Back Matter

    Pages 217-223

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The original idea of this book started when we were making a residual fluxes study of the Paranagua Coastal Lagoon (Brazil) near the colonial town of Guaraque~aba.Among the beautiful mangroves of this Brazilian National Park, between profile and profile, we wondered why South American estuaries were little known in the international arena. Besides, most of the papers published in the literature are based on biological research. Practically nothing is known about their geomorphology and dynamics. That night, while we were walking along the hilly streets of the town, we decided that the only way to have an idea about the degree of advance in the geomorphology and dynamics of our estuaries was to ask the proper South American researchers to write review articles about the estuaries in which they were working or about the gen­ eral state of the art of the Geomorphology and Physical Oceanography of the estuar­ ies of his/her country. The book grew from then on. Although initially many scien­ tists offer to write a chapter, we ran into the same problem these researchers have to publish in journals, they felt that their English was not good enough and withdrew. However, we are very satisfy about the number and quality of the contributions which also passed a very strong review process.

• Coast
• Coastal Marine
• Estuare
• Estuaries
• Marine Küstenablagerungen
• Ocean
• Oceanography
• Ozeanographie
• Südamerika
• Tide
• geomorphology
• hydrology
• metabolism
• temperature
• wind
• water quality and water pollution

• Instituto Argentino de Oceanografía, CC 107, Bahía Blanca, Argentina

  Gerardo M. E. Perillo, María Cintia Piccolo

• Departamento de Geología, Bahía Blanca, Argentina

  Gerardo M. E. Perillo

• Departamento de Geografía, Bahía Blanca, Argentina

  María Cintia Piccolo

• Instituto de Geociencias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile

  Mario Pino-Quivira

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