Morphology and Morphodynamics of Gravel Beaches
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چکیده
Contents 1. Introduction 2. Gravelly Beach Morphology 2.1. Gravelly beach profiles 2.2. Berms and the beach step 2.3. Cusps 3. Hydrodynamics of gravel beaches 3.1. Waves 3.2. Swash phase and percolation effects 3.3. Hydrodynamic effects of the beach step 4. Morphosedimentology of Gravel Beaches 4.1. Size and shape sorting 4.2. Measuring gravel size and shape. 4.3. Bluck models of gravel beach size and shape facies 4.3.1 The Sker type 4.3.2 The Newton type. 5. Stratigraphy of Gravel Beaches 6. Gravelly beach responses to external forcing 6.1. Coastal erosion on gravel coasts 6.2. Responses to sea-level rise 7. Future directions Acknowledgments Glossary Bibliography Biographical Sketches
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