Sediment is being transported from the Nile Delta to the Israeli coast by a Wave-induced longshore current carrying mainly sand, and by the geostrophic Mediterranean Current, detected in Earth Resources and Technology Satellite (ERTS) photographs through the presence of suspended sediments. The location of these suspended sediments is consistent with COmPutations of thc maximum depth of wave stirring on the shelf. Since the COnstruction of the Aswan Dam in 1965, sand has been more than adequately supplied by the severe erosion of the Nile Delta beaches. No changes in the longshore transport of sediment along the Israeli coast are anticipated from the Aswan Dam for a few hundred years.
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