Oceanography 101
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Reading Guide for Chapter 10
The Coast: Beaches and Shoreline Processes
10.1 How are Coastal Regions Defined?
What is the difference between a “Shore,” a “Coast” and a “Beach”?
10.2 How does sand move on the Beach?
Describe the directions that sediment moves along a beach:
Why does the shape of a beach typically change between winter and summer?
Describe or diagram how Longshore (aka longshore transport) drift occures:
10.3 What features exists along erosional and deposional shores?
Define the following terms for features of erosional shores:
Headlands:
Wave-cut cliff:
Sea stack:
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10.3 What features exists along erosional and deposional shores? (cont.)
Define the following terms for features of depostional shores:
Spit:
Bay-mouth bar:
Barrier Island:
Delta:
We will come back the the material covered in section 10.4 latter in in the quarter, but will not cover it in detail this week.
You should skim section 10.5
10.6 What is hard stabalization
Define the following terms:
Groins & Groin Fields
Jetties
Breakwaters
Seawall
You should skim sectikon 10.7, but we will not cover it in detail.
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