Abstract:
The study of seabed erosion and sediment distribution was carried out in the
Bidong Island, Terengganu. This study was conducted to determine the size
characteristics of sediment as an indicator of erosion that occurs in the presence of
Bidong island in June. Sampling process was carried out by building to facilitate the
process of transect bathymetry. Based on the transect has been built we can break the
12 station to collect sediment. Based on the information obtained from the bathymetry
there is severe erosion occurred in the presence Bidong island using 3D diagrams that
have been processed to remove the area is not applicable and correct to include tidal
data to the data obtained is really accurate without any error. Based on some basic
characteristics of the sediment size distribution and the depth of the seabed. Sediment
distribution is obtained that consists of the mean of coarse sand, medium sorting
perfect and very negative skewness that dominates almost all stations. There was no
significant change can be seen in terms of kurtosis in the most leptokurtic kurtosis
dominate almost all the stations in the study area. However, the erosion that occurs in
the presence of Bidong Island this happens because there are many agents that induce
erosion such as wind, and currents.
