Beach Processes and the Landscape Architect |
Contents
THE WAVE | 23 |
WAVES IN SHALLOW WATER | 42 |
THE ONSHORE WAVE AND BEACH PROCESSES | 51 |
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AREA OF DEPOSITION backwash beach face Beach Grass beach materials berm body of water bottom breakwater channel coast cobbles cold-cool Corp of Engineers curb cuspate foreland deep water waves diameter DIRECTION OF WAVE downdrift dredging drumlin dune area dune field effect erode erosion feet flow halophytes Hence humid climate increase island jetty Lake Kegonsa Lake Mendota Lake Superior land landscape littoral current littoral drift littoral transport move occur onshore parking phase velocity phenomena picnic area Pioneer Zone plants processes reduced sand strip Sea Rocket seawalls seaward sediment shallow water shore shoreline shrub zone silt slope storm wave stream structure submergence sufficient sunning area surface swales swimming beach tidal basin Tombolo U.S. Army Corp updrift vegetation velocity water depth water level water particles water's edge wave action wave approach wave attack wave conditions wave crest wave energy wave form wave height WAVE TRAVEL wave uprush weathering Wisconsin Xerophytes