• Shoreface may refer to: The upper shoreface of a seafloor The lower shoreface of a seafloor This set index article includes a list of related items that...
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    Lower shoreface refers to the portion of the seafloor, and the sedimentary depositional environment, that lies below the everyday wave base. The wave...
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    Upper shoreface refers to the portion of the seafloor that is shallow enough to be agitated by everyday wave action, the wave base. Below that is the...
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    upper shoreface deposits in the geologic record. Middle shoreface The middle shoreface is located in the upper shoreface. The middle shoreface is strongly...
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    zone not disturbed by any surface wave. (e.g. ) Upper shoreface — above wave base Lower shoreface — below wave base Airy wave theory Dispersion (water...
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    (elsewhere) Upper shoreface – Portion of the seafloor that is shallow enough to be agitated by everyday wave action Lower shoreface – Part of the seafloor...
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    loose rock. They may be basically divided into two parallel strips: the shoreface and the beach. Flat coasts consist of loose material such as sand and...
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    Cross beds in siliciclastic shoreface sediment (Agadir-Essaouira Basin, Morocco)...
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    the subsurface could act as high-quality source rocks. Jurassic marine shoreface and turbidite sands of the Plover and Militia Formations are proven reservoirs...
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    depositional environments that produce quartz arenites are beaches/upper shoreface and aeolian processes. Arkose – Type of sandstone containing at least...
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    the upper and lower shoreface, hypothesising that sediment is eroded from the lower shoreface and transported to the upper shoreface to maintain an equilibrium...
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    deposits) near shore. Grades upward from poorly to moderately sorted shoreface sands to foreshore sand and dunes. Fig. 1 shows unit extending from Gulfport...
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    NetLinks. Retrieved March 30, 2011. Short, A. (1999) Handbook of Beach and Shoreface Morphodynamics. John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Ch 7. MEDUS. (2011) Marine Engineering...
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    part because of the hydrographic impacts of hard armoring of a sandy shoreface and permafrost degradation that is accelerated by infrastructure.[citation...
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    second swells). The seafloor beneath intermediate water is termed the shoreface and is the zone where the seafloor slows down the swells by friction,...
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  • environmental preferences of Macaronichnus are high-energy foreshores and shallow shorefaces. Macaronichnus is an indicator of temperate to cold waters. Ichnology...
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    the magnitudes of tides in the distant past. Sediments deposited in the shoreface are preserved as lenses of sandstone in which the upper part of the sandstone...
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    sandstone storm bed above pervasively bioturbated fair weather lower shoreface bed cored in the Lower Cretaceous (upper Aptian to lower Albian) Ben Nevis...
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    environment it seems that it was the only species. Inaria was found in lower shoreface muds. Australia Post issued a 50 cent stamp featuring Inaria on 21 April...
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    conditions across the global ocean were ameliorated over time. Wave-dominated shoreface settings (WDSS) are believed to have served as refugium environments because...
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    "Embayed and Structurally Controlled Beaches". Handbook of Beach and Shoreface Morphodynamics. John Wiley and Sons. pp. 231–250. ISBN 978-0471965701...
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    waters in a number of environments, including coral and rocky reefs and shorefaces, lagoons, embayments, tidal flats and channels. They commonly move between...
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    beach sand, high water energy marine upper shoreface sand, intermediate water energy marine lower shoreface sand, and deeper low energy marine silt and...
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    significantly from previous beach nourishment strategies. Traditionally, shoreface nourishments consist of 1-2 million m3 of sand and these projects usually...
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    Pangea: Context for complex interactions among aeolian, alluvial, and shoreface sedimentary environments during the Late Pennsylvanian – early Permian"...
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  • depositional environment from subaqueous fans, through fan deltas and shoreface to delta plain. The uppermost Tarbert formation may represent reworked...
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    Schematic representation of the shoreface profile...
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    Fennoscandian Border Zone. Most of its deposition happened on a storm-dominated shoreface, with the exposed parts deposited in an open marine shelf within 1–2 km...
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    Muerta Formation (early to upper Tithonian), which to the east change to shoreface deposits of the Quintuco Formation (upper Tithonian – lower Valanginian)...
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  • up): Middle Gharif unit 1 is less than 10 meters thick and represents shoreface, tidal flat, lagoonal and mixed paralic environments. Middle Gharif unit...
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