Research Catalog

Title

Beach processes and sedimentation / Paul D. Komar.

Author

Komar, Paul D., 1939-

Publication

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, ©1976.

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Details

Description

xvii, 429 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Coast changes
• Marine sediments
• Ocean waves
• Tides
• tides
• Coast changes
• Marine sediments
• Ocean waves
• Tides
• Küste
• Küstenmorphologie
• Morphogenese
• Sedimentation
• Kusten
• Sedimentatie
• Erosie (geologie)
• BEACHES
• SEDIMENTS
• LITTORAL TRANSPORT
• COASTAL CURRENTS

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Contents

COASTAL GEOMORPHOLOGY: General beach nomenclature -- Erosional coastal forms -- Depositional coastal forms -- THEORIES OF WAVE MOTIONS: Periodic waves -- Wave theories -- Ranges of application of wave theories -- The numerical stream function -- Wave measurement and analysis -- WAVE GENERATION, TRAVEL AND BREAKING: Wave generation -- Wave generation mechanisms -- Wave prediction -- Deep water wave propagation -- Waves in shoaling water -- Breaking waves -- Wave refraction -- Wave diffraction -- Wave interference and surf beat -- TIDES: Tide generating forces and the equilibrium theory -- Dynamic theory of tidal behavior -- Shallow water effects -- Tides around the United States -- Tides around Britain -- Harmonic analysis and the prediction of tides -- CHANGING LEVELS OF SEA AND LAND: Annual changes in sea level -- Quaternary changes in sea level -- Coastal readjustments to a sea level rise -- NEARSHORE CURRENTS: Nearshore cell circulation -- Longshore currents due to an oblique wave approach -- Currents due to both a longshore variation in wave height and an oblique wave approach -- Empirical prediction of longshore currents -- Wind and tide effects on the nearshore circulation -- LONGSHORE TRANSPORT OF SEDIMENTS ON BEACHES: Wave power approach -- Energetics models of sand transport on beaches -- Suspended versus bed load transport -- Net littoral transport -- Threshold of sediment motion -- THE BUDGET OF LITTORAL SEDIMENTS: Stream sources -- Cliff erosion -- Wind transport -- Onshore offshore transport -- Deposition down submarine canyons -- Biogenous deposition -- Hydrogenous deposition -- Beach nourishment -- Mining of beach sediments -- Solution and abrasion -- Longshore transport -- The balance: beach erosion or deposition -- Heavy minerals as tracers of sediment source and transport -- SHORELINE CONFIGURATION: Wave refraction and the shape of the pocket beach -- Analytical solutions of shoreline configuration -- Computer simulation models -- Rhythmic shoreline features -- BEACH PROFILES AND ONSHORE-OFFSHORE SEDIMENT TRANSPORT: Profile changes due to storms -- Profile changes due to longshore sand transport -- Profile changes due to tides -- Profile changes due to winds -- Longshore bars and troughs -- Beach face slope -- Berm formation -- Onshore-offshore sediment transport -- COASTAL ENGINEERING STRUCTURES: Types of structures -- Effects of construction on adjacent beaches -- LITTORAL SEDIMENTS: Composition -- Grain size distribution -- Onshore-offshore grain size sorting -- Longshore sorting of beach sediments -- Abrasion of beach sediments -- Grain roundness and shape on beaches -- Sedimentary structures -- Beachrock -- Life at the seashore -- Ancient beach deposits.

ISBN

• 0130725951
• 9780130725950

LCCN

75044005

OCLC

• ocm01975318
• 1975318
• SCSB-297542

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library