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• Hard coastal protection structures
  ...ardening in the US. Front. Ecol. Environ. 13: 301–307</ref>, and coastal structures exist along 9.4% of the coastline in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage ...ki articles are indicated where a more detailed discussion of hard coastal structures can be found. Large parts of this article are taken from the coastal engine
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• Hard shoreline protection structures
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• Groynes
  ...shore into the sea. [[Groyne]]s are examples of [[hard coastal protection structures]] which aim to [[coastal protection|protect]] the shoreline from [[coastal ...generally designed as a group comprising from a few to tens of individual structures (see [[Groynes as shore protection]]). A scheme of interacting groynes is s
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• Port breakwaters and coastal erosion
  ...ted to pollution due to the harbour traffic, because the basins constitute structures relatively closed with any or little exchanges with the open sea. *Consequently, by refraction around the work, the coast is attacked hard by the waves downstream it, and there is a greater erosion due to the fact
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• Detached shore parallel breakwaters
  ...intenance and lifetime service as well as the rebuilding or dismantling of structures when their lifetime is over. ...oast to reduce the energy attacking the coastline. The term “Low crested Structures” (LCSs) usually designates the most common [[detached breakwater]] types,
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• Definitions of coastal terms
  Growth (vertical and/or horizontal) of morphological structures ([[#Beach|beach]], [[#Bar|bar]], [[#Dune|dune]], [[#Sand bank|sand bank]], # Applying a hard protective layer, a so-called [[armour layer]], on a breakwater or seawall,
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• Natural causes of coastal erosion
  ...esponds to the [[Closure depth|closure depth]] and the landward limit to a hard boundary (seawall, cliff, ..). In the case of a dune coast the active zone ...fast process in case of soft cliffs (till, clay) and very slow in case of hard-rock cliffs. Other examples of ongoing natural erosion are given below.
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• Human causes of coastal erosion
  ...ic equilibrium. If some parts are highly resistant to erosion (presence of hard outcrops or cliffs, for example), this can take a very long time. However, ==Interference with coastal structures==
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• Detached breakwaters
  ...any old detached breakwaters in Italy have been transformed into submerged structures. Use of submerged breakwaters began in Italy in the 1980s and resulted in m ...water-level. Floating breakwaters are seldom used as shoreline management structures because they are not suitable for installation in the open sea.
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• Dune stabilisation
  ...omoting natural dune development requires limiting negative interferences. Structures that obstruct sand supply to the beach by interrupting littoral drift shoul ==Artificial hard dune core==
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• Seawall
  ...tion and storm surge, such as flooding. Seawalls are normally very massive structures because they are designed to resist the full force of waves and storm surge [[Image:Seawall structures.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Fig. 1. Examples of seawall structures.]]
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• Emergency Protection
  [[Category:Hard structures]]
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• Perched beaches
  ...cept is often used in situations where the coastline has been fixed with a hard structure (seawall, revetment), which has accelerated erosion of the natura [[Category:Hard structures]]
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• Coves - artificial formation and use
  ...ccur naturally (between to headlands) or artificially (between two coastal structures) and has specific functional characteristics. The [[cove]] concept is simi ...artificial pocket beaches will begin to form by themselves as soon as the structures have been built, however it is recommended to include initial beach fill in
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• Currents
  ...re two-dimensional in the horizontal plane due to complex bathymetries and structures in the [[nearshore]] zone. ...partially rocky coastlines or along coastlines where coral reefs or other hard reefs are present. Irregular depth contours give rise to irregular wave pat
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• Coast protection
  ...the coast and can eventually result in loss of natural coastal protection structures such as beaches and marshes (so-called [[coastal squeeze]]<ref> Doody, J.P. ...rotection practices are compared in the articles [[Hard coastal protection structures]] and [[Dealing with coastal erosion]].
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• Sea defence
  Sea defence structures are important components that can help create a [[coastal squeeze]]<ref> Do * Different protection measures are described in [[Hard coastal protection structures]].
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• Rip current
  Boundary rips are related to the presence of hard topographic structures (headlands, groynes, jetties) that locally shield the beach from obliquely ...ffshore structures - natural seabed structures or manmade structures. Such structures produce a longshore modulation of wave energy in the breaker zone by shield
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• Sea level rise
  ...erosion, because of sediment retention behind upstream dams, hard coastal structures and/or conversion of mangrove forests to aquacultures <ref> Syvitski, J.P.,
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• Shoreline management
  ...it comes to considering the most appropriate design scenarios for coastal structures. #Minimise the use of hard coastal protection schemes, give high priority to the quality of the natura
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• Applicability of detached breakwaters
  It is recommended to use few large structures instead of many small structures in order to enhance the aesthetic appearance of a segmented breakwater sche ...and groynes can, to some extent, be avoided by optimising the shape of the structures. This is the subject of the next subsection.
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• Groynes as shore protection
  ...e solutions but rather because groynes are widely applied shore protection structures and well suited to explain various basic morphological responses including ...easing littoral drift in the transport. Upper panel: Shoreline without any structures; middle panel: Effect of a single long groyne; bottom panel: Effect of a si
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