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  • Groynes
    ...son to impermeable or high groynes<ref>Pilarczyk K. & R.B. Zeidler.(1996): Offshore Breakwaters and Shore Evolution Control. "Balkema", the Netherlands pp560.<
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  • Port breakwaters and coastal erosion
    Pilarczyk K. and Zeidler R. ''Offshore breakwaters and shore evolution control''.Balkema Edition
    7 KB (1,098 words) - 16:44, 5 July 2020
  • Characteristics of muddy coasts
    .... [[Silt]] and [[clay]] are not stable in the littoral zone and are washed offshore. If large amounts of fines are supplied, mud flats and mangrove areas may d
    9 KB (1,308 words) - 15:59, 15 May 2021
  • Definitions of coastal terms
    ...ters at the leeside. It can be linked to the shore or it can be positioned offshore. A common type is the '''detached breakwater'''. This is a structure approx ...Flood deltas and ebb-tidal deltas are generally present at the inshore and offshore sides (respectively) of [[#Tidal inlet|tidal inlets]] of [[#Estuary|estuari
    79 KB (11,862 words) - 21:40, 1 April 2024
  • Coastal Hydrodynamics And Transport Processes
    ==Onshore and Offshore Transport and Equilibrium Coastal Profile== Varying wave conditions result in varying onshore and offshore transports over the coastal profile. These transports are, to some extent,
    29 KB (4,518 words) - 11:18, 6 July 2020
  • Natural causes of coastal erosion
    ...cell is a pocket beach enclosed between headlands, assuming absence of net offshore or onshore sand transport. The orientation of the beach can change in respo ...can be eroded by storm waves (see [[Dune erosion]]). In the absence of net offshore or onshore sand transport and in the absence of gradients in [[littoral dri
    14 KB (2,169 words) - 17:21, 26 August 2022
  • Human causes of coastal erosion
    Besides, groynes generate or strengthen offshore-directed currents – so-called [[rip current]]s. These rip currents are da ...reater than at non-walled locations. Winter season waves dragged more sand offshore in front of walls but summer swell waves piled more sand up against walls i
    29 KB (4,651 words) - 22:27, 2 July 2022
  • Detached breakwaters
    *Offshore breakwaters ===Offshore breakwaters===
    31 KB (4,715 words) - 23:55, 30 March 2024
  • Shore nourishment
    ...astal zone. Placement in onshore nourishment sites makes use of pipes; for offshore sites, sand is dumped by split barges or by rainbowing (Fig. 1). For small ...ater adjusted using a bulldozer (Fig. 1). The sand source can be either an offshore supply via a cross-profile pipeline, floating or buried, or it can be suppl
    12 KB (1,875 words) - 15:32, 23 July 2023
  • Perched beaches
    ...be a good solution for preserving beaches on urbanized rocky coasts where offshore sand resources are scarce. The perched beach is not an appropriate concept
    4 KB (628 words) - 18:42, 22 January 2024
  • Beach drainage
    ...d backwash. The uprush moves sand onshore while the backwash transports it offshore, see [[Swash zone dynamics]].
    11 KB (1,646 words) - 10:15, 1 May 2023
  • Waves
    ...wave energy resource assessment. In: Proceedings of the 18th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 6–11 July 2008; ...M. 2017. Types of Ocean Surface Waves, Wave Classification. Encycl. Marit. Offshore Eng. 2017: 1–8</ref>:
    20 KB (2,992 words) - 16:09, 14 February 2024
  • Wave transformation
    ...wave height at breaking. As a rule of thumb, the wave set-up is 20% of the offshore significant wave height. Gradients in wave set-up, e.g. in partly sheltered ...f an onshore phase with decelerating upwards flow (uprush or swash) and an offshore phase with accelerating downwards flow (downrush or backwash)
    6 KB (1,006 words) - 13:44, 22 February 2024
  • Currents
    ...ip currents have their principal axes oriented perpendicular to the beach (offshore) while longshore currents act parallel to the beach. These currents are all ...re [[wave set-up]] gradient (representing [[radiation stress]] decay). The offshore discharge of water is compensated by the onshore directed mass transport an
    14 KB (2,112 words) - 14:00, 20 January 2024
  • Breakwater
    ...ters at the leeside. It can be linked to the shore or it can be positioned offshore.}}
    693 bytes (101 words) - 13:18, 27 March 2021
  • Closure depth
    ...uch as the beach adjacent to a long jetty, at which sediment may be jetted offshore by a-large [[rip current]] or an ebb [[tide|tidal]] shoal where the tidal c ...e, a shoal or buffer zone which is usually called lower shoreface and an [[offshore zone]] or shelf zone. This partition defines two closure depths, namely:
    23 KB (3,596 words) - 12:03, 24 April 2024
  • Offshore zone
    {{Definition|title=Offshore zone ...f the [[surf zone]] or off the [[littoral zone]]. In the Coastal Wiki, the offshore zone is usually defined as the zone off the [[shoreface]]<ref name="Karsten
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  • Rip current
    ...urrents are wave-generated currents that depart from the nearshore zone in offshore direction. }} '''a narrow offshore directed jet flow generated by a local imbalance between wave-induced [[rad
    8 KB (1,278 words) - 10:16, 3 July 2022
  • Shoreface
    ...ar definition is: The shoreface is the zone seaward of the shoreline where offshore generated waves interact with the upward sloping seabed. The shoreface can
    1 KB (218 words) - 20:12, 30 March 2021
  • Shoreline management
    ...der:2px solid lightblue;text-align: left"| Influences sediment movement on offshore zones, links nearshore processes with far field effects. ...xt-align: left"| Basic description of coastline; Physical significance (eg offshore banks dissipate wave energy, cliffs can provide a sediment supply etc.); Wi
    38 KB (5,697 words) - 22:31, 2 July 2022

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