Coastal Sediment Mobility: Proceedings of the Eighth Symposium on Coastal Sedimentology, 2-4 March, 1989William F. Tanner |
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... longshore direction , the shoreline can be divided into geographic sections according to the location of inlets and areas where the coastal processes can be described as a system . The computer - generated maps are very useful in ...
... longshore direction , the shoreline can be divided into geographic sections according to the location of inlets and areas where the coastal processes can be described as a system . The computer - generated maps are very useful in ...
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... longshore drift . On St. Joseph Peninsula , the longshore drift was mostly unidirectional , to the west northwest . But for the last 300-400 years , longshore drift on St. Joseph Peninsula has been bidirectional , to the northwest on St ...
... longshore drift . On St. Joseph Peninsula , the longshore drift was mostly unidirectional , to the west northwest . But for the last 300-400 years , longshore drift on St. Joseph Peninsula has been bidirectional , to the northwest on St ...
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... Longshore drift transports sediment parallel to the coast in the nearshore zone . This sediment movement is the result of wave - induced longshore currents , caused by the oblique approach of waves to the shore deflecting the nearshore ...
... Longshore drift transports sediment parallel to the coast in the nearshore zone . This sediment movement is the result of wave - induced longshore currents , caused by the oblique approach of waves to the shore deflecting the nearshore ...
Contents
Highprecision mapping of changes of Florida Shoreline | 7 |
Methods for analysis of historic shoreline data | 21 |
Using dEdR to predict beach erosion rates | 41 |
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