Depth distribution regularities of the subaqueous bank slopes built up by drift soil

Abstract

Cartometry of 14 shorelands regions showed the main regularities of submarine slope depths. In the presence of drifting silt loads and lack of their supply from the land, depth distribution is fitted by logarithmic function. This corresponds to the mode functions of wave height distribution and of orbital wave velocities. Relaxation of some coastal systems in response to changes of supply takes from several years to hundreds of years.