Coasts Lectures

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Decks in this class (16)

Tides
What are tides essentially 1,
What is newton s law of universal...,
What does the force exerted in ne...
19  cards
Waves
How can you get water waves 1,
How does wind generation start 2,
Waves high pressure low pressure 3
26  cards
Waves approaching shore & cross-shore sediment transport
Why do large wavelengths travel f...,
Define deep water 2,
Define shallow water 3
17  cards
Bars and bedforms
What is the surf zone 1,
What does wave breaking do 2,
Bigger waves break 3
17  cards
Bedforms and storms
How do cusps form 1,
What are patches 2,
How does granular sorting in patc...
12  cards
Storms to pocket beaches
What are tropical storms 1,
Why do cyclones spin 2,
What is angular momentum 3
20  cards
Wave refraction, rocky coasts
Alongshore sediment transport is ...,
Amount of transport depends on 2,
What determines wave breaking hei...
12  cards
Rocky coasts to barriers
What happens if you have a wide b...,
What happens if you have no perma...,
When does a coastline reach a sta...
19  cards
Overwash morphology
What is an over wash 1,
What is a wash over 2,
What do you need for an over wash 3
4  cards
Coastal Dunes
What are snow dunes 1,
Where can you find snow dunes 2,
What are the essential ingredient...
18  cards
Marshes and Mangroves
Why are marshes and mangroves so ...,
Why not drowned 2,
How do salt marshes grow 3
8  cards
Atolls
Darwin s canonical model 1,
Darwin s canonical model of reef ...,
Diversity of modern reef morpholo...
11  cards
Ecological Engineers
Whats the bathtub model 1,
Why beware of the bathtub 2,
What is ecological engineering 3
8  cards
UK Shoreline Management Plans
What are shoreline management pla...,
Who develops shoreline management...,
How are shoreline management plan...
15  cards
Beach Nourishment
Beach nourishment cycles exist be...,
Good definition for a need for hu...,
How long do these processes of hu...
12  cards
Dynamics of developed coastlines
What s a common pool resource 1,
Tragedy of commons 2,
How does nordstrom 1994 relate hu...
32  cards

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