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• Closure depth
  ...., Larson, M. and Wise, R. A. 1998. Depth of Closure in Beach-fill Design. Coastal Engineering Technical Note CETN II-40, 3/98, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways E ...of closure marks the transition from lower shoreface to continental shelf, and corresponds to the depth where the influence of wave action on cross-shore
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• Greek case studies: Long term geomorphological changes in the coastal zone of the Thermaikos Gulf, Salonika Region, North Greece
  ...ocene transgression caused the inundation of the lower parts of the valley and gradually led to the present shoreline configuration. ...stal settlements existed in the region and have been affected in many ways and various degrees by the prolongation or the retreat of the coastline.
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• Greek case studies: Morphological evolution of the R.Alfios deltaic shoreline
  ...an amount of some 2.5x10⁶ tonnes per year of suspended sediment and an amount of more than 3x10⁶ tonnes of total sediment load are e ...delta is exposed primarily to wind waves approaching from the S, SW and W and NW. Due to very long (hundreds of km) fetches, a wave regime with wave heig
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• Experiences with beach nourishments in Portugal
  ...utions. For definitions of coastal terms, see the article [[definitions of coastal terms]]. For information on different types of nourishment, see [[shore nou ...h is located on the south Portuguese Coast at Quarteira, between Albufeira and Faro in the district of Loulé, about 5km east of Vilamoura.
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• Principles of conservation, rehabilitation and restoration of estuarine and coastal habitats
  ...troyed (SER, 2004<ref>SER. 2004. The SER primer on ecological restoration. Society for Ecological Restoration, Science & Policy Working Group, Tucson, Arizona ...jectives (Cooke, 2005<ref>Cooke, G.D. 2005. Ecosystem Rehabilitation. Lake and Reservoir Management 21(2): 218-221</ref>).}}
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• Nearshore sandbars
  .../ref>. The cartoon of Fig. 1 shows a typical example of the transformation and breaking of incident waves in the nearshore zone. ...lopment of a rip cell system, as described in the articles [[Rip current]] and [[Rhythmic shoreline features]].
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• Gravel Beaches
  ...around the world, including the USA, Canada, Japan, Argentina, New Zealand and the wave dominated coastlines of Northern Europe <ref name="Buscome 2006">B ...eport SR 323.</ref>. Two examples from the UK are those at Sidmouth, Devon and Elmer, West Sussex.
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• Greek case studies: Geomorphological changes on the coastal area of the Inner Thermaikos Gulf over the past 150 years
  ...he article [[Greek case studies: Long term geomorphological changes in the coastal zone of the Thermaikos Gulf, Salonika Region, North Greece]]. ...s of two main rivers (Axios and Aliakmon) and two smaller rivers (Gallikos and Loudias), which discharge into the Gulf (Poulos et al., 2000; Karageorgis e
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• Morphology of estuaries
  ...nomously in response to interventions of any kind. Understanding estuarine morphodynamics is therefore a prerequisite for effective estuarine management. This article first summarizes the main principles of estuarine morphology and underlying dynamics, according to which a classification scheme is introduc
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• Wave-dominated river deltas
  ...ed deltas in the lower left corner. Image <ref>Seybold, H., J. S. Andrade, and H. J. Herrmann (2007), Modeling river delta formation., Proc. Natl. Acad. S ...sociated with a particular combination of wave, tidal and fluvial factors, and developed a ternary diagram of delta morphology <ref name="Gal75">75</ref>,
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• Bedforms and roughness
  * lower transport regime with flat bed, ribbons and ridges, ripples, dunes and bars, * transitional regime with washed-out dunes and sand waves,
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• Swash zone dynamics
  ...amics and sediment transport in the swash zone: a review and perspectives. Coastal Engineering 45: 149-167</ref>.]] ...coral barriers. This influences the exchange of sediment between the land and ocean, which ultimately forms the coastline.
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• Shoreface profile
  ...nner continental shelf that is bounded landward by the mean low-water line and that extends seaward to where the influence of wave action on cross-shore s ...ion= The shoreface profile, often called beach profile, is the cross-shore coastal depth profile of the shoreface. }}
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• Nature-based shore protection
  ...erate climate zones. Mangroves are dealt with in the article [[Mangroves]] and coral reefs in the article [[Coral reefs]]. ...Coastal Wiki articles are devoted to this topic, see [[Shore nourishment]] and further references therein.
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• Tidal bore dynamics
  ...on the reader is referred to the article [[Tidal asymmetry and tidal inlet morphodynamics]]. ...J-P., Bonneton, N., Sottolichio, A., Castelle, B., Marieu, V., Pochon, N. and Van de Loock, J. 2011. Large amplitude undular tidal bore propagation in th
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• Shoreline retreat and recovery
  Two types of processes can be responsible for shoreline retreat and advance. ...ach erosion/accretion related to structural sand loss/gain on the [[active coastal zone]]. The other type is beach erosion/accretion related to temporal varia
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