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    A sand wave is a lower regime sedimentary structure that forms across from tidal currents. Sand waves are formed through the action of the wind or water...
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    platform is covered by sand, forming the beach, and then the platform can only be identified at low tides or when storms move the sand. Wave-cut platforms form...
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    Dune (redirect from Sand dune system)
    stovepipe Ice dune List of landforms Masseira Médanos Sandhill Sand wave Singing sand Strand plain Jackson, Julia A., ed. (1997). "Dune [geomorph]". Glossary...
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    Beach (redirect from Sand beach)
    wet the sand beyond this area. However, the drift line is likely to move inland under assault by storm waves. Beaches are the result of wave action by...
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    Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles. Sand has various compositions but is defined by its grain size. Sand grains are...
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    Sand art is the practice of modelling sand into an artistic form, such as sand brushing, sand sculpting, sand painting, or creating sand bottles. A sandcastle...
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    Shoal (redirect from Sand bar)
    trough (marine landform). Sand carried by the offshore moving bottom current is deposited where the current reaches the wave break. Other longshore bars...
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    local wave dynamics are favorable. A type of open ocean surf break, these occur where sand build ups occur well offshore to produce breaking waves in the...
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    by wave oscillations. In most present-day streams, ripples will not form in sediment larger than coarse sand. Therefore, the stream beds of sand-bed...
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    Singing sand, also called whistling sand, barking sand, booming sand or singing dune, is sand that produces sound. The sound emission may be caused by...
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    the Jurassic period as large sand dunes migrated across a sandy desert. The thin ridges and ribbing seen within The Wave are the result of the differential...
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    species of sand dollar have slits called lunules that can help the animal stay embedded in the sand to stop it from being swept away by an ocean wave. In living...
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    Channel, off the Welsh coast, are the OBel Sands, an extensive area of sand waves up to 62 ft (19 m) high, covering more than 400 sq mi (1,036 km2)). The...
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    (clay, silt, pebbles, sand, shingle, shells) along a coast parallel to the shoreline, which is dependent on the angle of incoming wave direction. Oblique...
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    and white) can often have deposits of black sand, particularly after storms. Larger waves can sort out sand grains leaving deposits of heavy minerals visible...
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    sediment is added to a coast. The natural forces of wind, waves and tides then distribute the sand along the coast over many years, preventing the need for...
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  • was born in England. Wakes completed a PhD titled The development of a sand wave at the University of Nottingham in 1991. Wakes was a chartered engineer...
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    a coastal landform, a type of dune system and sand island, where an area of sand has been formed by wave and tidal action parallel to the mainland coast...
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    sneaker wave, also known as a sleeper wave, or in Australia as a king wave, is a disproportionately large coastal wave that can sometimes appear in a wave train...
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  • balls, bullets, sand grains: particle models work across a huge scale. Unlike waves, particles do not exhibit interference. Classical waves interfere. Particles...
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    crustaceans, known as mole crabs, sand fiddlers, sand fleas or sand crabs. These small animals burrow in the sand in the swash zone and use their antennae...
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    storm waves in the ocean. Deposition involves fallout from suspension and lateral tractive flow due to wave oscillation. As the large waves drape sand over...
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  • with wave pounding have large sand deposits and loosely consolidated sand cliffs. Waves in these areas can be extra damaging due to the suspended sand material...
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    placing sand on the beach and dunes. Since then more shoreface nourishments have been carried out, which rely on the forces of the wind, waves and tides...
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    glut thy sorrow on a morning rose,       Or on the rainbow of the salt sand-wave,               Or on the wealth of globed peonies; Or if thy mistress...
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  • and an elastic solid medium (such as an interface between water and sand). The wave is of maximum intensity at the interface and decreases exponentially...
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    or wind). Examples of these bedforms are ripples, dunes, anti-dunes, sand waves, hummocks, bars, and delta slopes. Environments in which water movement...
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    to Tor Ness. The worst part is over a sand wave field about 5.5 kilometres (3.4 mi) west of Stroma. The waves formed by this race form a natural breakwater...
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    Node (physics) (category Waves)
    dimensional standing waves, nodes are curves (often straight lines or circles when displayed on simple geometries.) For example, sand collects along the...
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    washed by incoming waves, probing the softened sand with their bills. The sand crab retreats under the sand surface as each wave goes out, maximizing...
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