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An assessment of seabed conditions for port development: A case study of Nagore - east coast of India

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Title An assessment of seabed conditions for port development: A case study of Nagore - east coast of India
 
Creator Pathak, M.C.
Subrahmanyam, V.
Hashimi, N.H.
Gujar, A.R.
Nigam, R.
Kotnala, K.L.
 
Description The knowledge of the seabed engineering parameters is a pre-requisite for any meaningful attempt to evolve plans and strategies for port developments. The close track spacing (50-100 m) of data sets on bathymetry, sub-bottom profiling, seafloor mapping (approx 406 line km) along with surficial sediment samples and the environmental data has helped in generating geoscientific information required for a port being developed by M/s Madras Refinery Limited off Nagore, East Coast of India. Results of the integrated surveys revealed smooth surficial topography upto 10 m and the undulations to the order of greater than 3 m beyond 10 m isobath. The seismic data reveal that the acoustic basement occurs at 30-35 m. The seabed configuration, hazardous obstructions, the nature of surfacial seabed clay, and sub-seabed geological information yielded from the studies were utilized to assess the viability of the port development and to locate and design operational facilities
 
Date 2009-01-10T11:15:56Z
2009-01-10T11:15:56Z
1999
 
Type Conference Article
 
Identifier GEO shore. International Conference on Offshore and Nearshore Geotechnical Engineering, December 2-3, 1999, eds. Singh, S.K.; Lacasse, S. 359-364p.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/1783
 
Language en
 
Rights Copyright [1999]. All efforts have been made to respect the copyright to the best of our knowledge. Inadvertent omissions, if brought to our notice, stand for correction and withdrawal of document from this repository.
 
Publisher Oxford and IBH, New Delhi