Beaches: Profiles, processes and permeability
Abstract
The problems involved in the interaction between waves and beaches are complex and it is not yet possible to predict on empirical grounds, let alone theoretical grounds, the shape of a beach after it is subjected to given wave conditions. This investigation began as a study of the use of crushed coal as a model beach material to represent natural beaches of quartz sand but subsequently developed into a more general study of the processes which determine the shape of beach profiles formed in beach materials with different permeabilities.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- June 1980
- Bibcode:
- 1980STIN...8121245G
- Keywords:
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- Beaches;
- Environment Models;
- Sands;
- Shorelines;
- Tides;
- Water Waves;
- Coasts;
- Ocean Currents;
- Permeability;
- Porosity;
- Engineering (General)