Information
- Type
- Organization
- Type
- https://marineinfo.org/ns/institutes/types#Scientific
- Name
- Afdeling Sedimentologie
- Acronym
- IRScNB/KBIN-KBIN
- Parent institute
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Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen; Departement Beheer van het Mariene Ecosysteem
- Address
- Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussel, Belgium
- Contact numbers
-
- Telephone
- +32-(0)2-627 43 22
- Location
-
- latitude
- 50.8373872
- longitude
- 4.3762391
- Description @en
- Research on modern marine and estuarine sediments: physical properties of sediments (radiography, densitometry, grain size analysis, specific surface); sedimentary dynamics (sediment fluxes in estuaries, sediment accumulation in tidally influenced areas; relationships among sediments, sedimentation and biochemical processes; remote sensing of sediment types and structures.
- Description @nl
- Onderzoek naar moderne mariene en estuariene sedimenten: fysische eigenschappen van sedimenten (radiografie, densitometrie, korrelgrootte analyse, specifiek oppervlak); sedimentaire dynamiek (sedimentstromen in estuaria, sedimentaccumulatie in intertidale gebieden; relaties tussen sedimenten, sedimentatie en biochemische processen; teledetectie van sedimenttypes en structuren.
Expertise
- Densitometers
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 2203
- Estuarine sedimentation
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 2908
- Geological maps
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 3633
- Granulometry
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 3780
- Intertidal sedimentation
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 4422
- Radiography
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 6718
- Remote sensing
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 6864
- Sediment dynamics
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 7368
- Sediment transport
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 7391
- Sedimentation
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 7401
- Sedimentology
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 7402
- geographic terms
- ASW, Mexico Gulf, Campeche Bank
- Belgium, Schelde R.
- Belgium, Zeeschelde
- Ecuador
- Russia, Siberia