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Longshore Drift
Longshore drift Longshore drift is the transport of sand along a beach by waves impinging or breaking at an angle to the beach. Longshore drift occurs when a wave breaks, lifts sand into suspension, and then throws a pulse of sand-bearing water (swash) up the slope of the beach. If the wave... Read more |
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The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys American rock group For the Record<... Read more |
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beach
beach a gently sloping zone where deposits of unconsolidated sediments are subject to wave action at the shore of an ocean or lake. Most of the sediment making up a beach is supplied by rivers or by the erosion of highlands adjacent to the coast. Beaches extend from a low waterline landward... Read more |
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Moses Yale Beach
Moses Yale Beach 1800-1868, American journalist, b. Wallingford, Conn. As a young man he invented a rag-cutting machine and a gunpowder engine. In 1838 he bought the New York Sun from his brother-in-law, Benjamin Day, for whom he had been working as production manager. The Sun' s chief... Read more |
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Wave propagation
Beach and shoreline dynamics The coast and beach, where the continents meet the sea, are dynamic environments where agents of erosion vie with processes of deposition to produce a set of features reflecting their complex interplay and the influences of changes in sea level, climate , or sediment... Read more |
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Laguna Beach
Laguna Beach, California/USA Lagonas Founded in 1887 and named after two lagoons nearby (in Spanish, laguna); it was renamed in 1904.... Read more |
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beach grass
beach grass or marram grass , any species of the genus Ammophila, perennial grasses used to control the shifting of sand dunes, thereby protecting sandy coastal areas. The European beach grass ( A. arenaria ) has been used to hold dunes in Europe and was early planted at Cape Cod to bind the... Read more |
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KEEPING TRUTH IN SIGHT AS URBAN LEGENDS ROAM.(Lifestyle)(Column)
...woman with an old suitcase/knapsack/shopping bag is picked up while hitchhiking...generations have grown up believing that...Mencken dreamed up that one. But...bubbling away at Long Beach - nor were there...phone line to make ... |