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• Continental shelf habitat
  This article describes the habitat of the continental shelf. It is one of the sub-categories within the section dealing with biodiversi ...obal Continental Shelf.jpg|left|thumb|400px|caption|The global continental shelf (marked in turquoise) <ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_shelf</
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• Definitions of coastal terms
  ...meters, see: [[Wave ripples]], [[Wave ripple formation]], [[Sand ridges in shelf seas]], [[Stability models]]. The smallest bedforms play an important role ...tidal deltas]], [[nearshore sandbars]], [[beach berm]]s, [[Sand ridges in shelf seas|sand ridges]], [[Wave ripples|ripples]], etc. As a result, the large-s
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• Dune stabilisation
  ...protection challenges after heavy storms on the Polish coast. Continental Shelf Research 266, 105080</ref>. These reinforcement materials account for only
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• Closure depth
  ...depth of closure marks the transition from lower shoreface to continental shelf, and corresponds to the depth where the influence of wave action on cross-s ...r zone which is usually called lower shoreface and an [[offshore zone]] or shelf zone. This partition defines two closure depths, namely:
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• Fluid mud
  .... 2007. Hindered settling of mud flocs: Theory and validation. Continental Shelf Res. 27: 1893-1907</ref>. ...sediment on turbulence within an estuarine turbidity maximum. Est. Coast. Shelf Sci. 59: 237-248</ref>.
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• Sea level rise
  ...ns; this holds especially for coastal zones situated on a wide continental shelf<ref name=H19/>. Observation records from coastal tide gauges or from satell ...the mean sea level. This holds in particular for coasts situated on broad continental shelves (North Sea, East China Sea, for example) where extreme levels are m
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• Shoreface
  ...nition= The shoreface is the '''nearshore zone''' of the inner continental shelf that is bounded landward by the low-water line and that extends seaward to
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• Threats to the coastal zone
  ...tend for considerable distances from the shore, underneath the continental shelf. In some cases, these deeper aquifers may have fractures or other breaches
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• Transport and dispersion of pollutants, nutrients, tracers in mixed nearshore water
  ...s been put in the understanding/modelling of the mixing of the continental shelf shallow waters. However, this is the complex environment which provides a b .... Characterization of chaotic dispersion in a coastal tidal model. ''Cont. Shelf Res.'' '''26''' 1360–1374.</ref>). These recent studies clearly show the
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• Coastal tract modelling
  ...the shoreline evolution must be linked to the behaviour of the continental shelf and coastal plain (Cowell et al., 2003a<ref>Cowell, P.J., Stive, M.J.F., Ni
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• Coastal mud belt
  ...nearshore zone occurs when a flow pattern exists on the inner continental shelf that prohibits escape to deeper water. In this regard, a coastal mud belt m ...sipation due to mudbanks formed off southwest coast of India. Est. Coastal Shelf Science 196: 387-398</ref>.
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• Tidal asymmetry and tidal inlet morphodynamics
  ...earth, sun and moon have a cyclical character, see the article [[Ocean and shelf tides]]. The semidiurnal lunar tide (M2) is usually the dominant component, ...nd Regional Solutions]</ref>. This map is shown in the article [[Ocean and shelf tides#Asymmetric ocean tides]]. Important asymmetric tides (with either pos
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• Nutrient conversion in the marine environment
  ...eochemical processes largely take place in the sediment of the continental shelf. This article provides a brief introduction to the processes involved in th ...11, 1260</ref>. Atmospheric deposition contributes about 8 Tg N/yr to the continental shelves and about 45 Tg/yr to the global ocean. However, atmospheric deposi
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• Stability models
  ...nize at various length and time scales. Sand banks, sand waves both in the shelf and at the coastline, sand bars, tidal inlets, [[beach cusps]], cuspate for === Continental shelf morphological features ===
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• Reduction of uncertainties through Data Model Integration (DMI)
  ...4.Assimilation of ERS-1 altimeter data in a tidal model of the Continental Shelf, ''Deutsche Hydrographische Zeitschrift'', 285-329.</ref>). A main practica
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• Submarine groundwater discharge
  ...er et al. (2016<ref>Sawyer, A.H., David, C.H. and Famiglietti, J.S. (2016) Continental patterns of submarine groundwater discharge reveal coastal vulnerabilities. ...nces. The latter occurs when confined aquifers, underneath the continental shelf, have their outcrop on the sea bottom and at a large distance from the shor
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• Measuring instruments for coasts
  ...eractions between a benthic tripod and waves on a sandy bed''. Continental Shelf Research, Vol. 23, p. 355-375.</ref>) concluded that the turbulence levels
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• Interpolation of measured grain-size fractions
  ...this technique has been applied to data from the entire Dutch Continental Shelf (DCS). ...ve modelling of the surficial sand distribution in shelf seas. Continental Shelf Research. Volume 26. Issue 19: 2454-2468. </ref> describe this technique in
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• Coastal meteorology
  ...erences exist, with oceanic extratropical cyclones affecting the coast and continental extratropical cyclones moving from the interior of the continents to the co ...se time of the coastal currents are sufficiently short that changes in the shelf circulation can be driven by rapidly moving atmospheric events.
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• Land-ocean interaction in the coastal zone
  ...ale of the coastal zone in the LOICZ science includes river-catchments and continental shelves where these geographical extensions are meaningful for coastal proc ...'transport and changes''' in, sediments and nutrient cycles in coastal and shelf waters and at the sea bottom – water interface.
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• UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
  ...ich comes into force in 1962 and defines the boundaries of the continental shelf as well as the rights of the nations to explore and exploit the natural res ...aw, like the territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone, the continental shelf and adds new ones like archipelagic waters, navigable straits, seabed.
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