Lost Beaches

Lost beaches lack a recreational beach, and lateral shoreline access is very difficult if not impossible.

Glossary of Terms

The material moving in suspension in a fluid, kept up by the upward components of the turbulent currents or by colloidal suspension.

Gabion

Steel wire-mesh basket to hold stones or crushed rock to protect a bank or bottom from erosion. Structures composed of masses of rocks, rubble or masonry held tightly together usually by wire mesh so as to form blocks or walls. Sometimes used (although not recommended) on heavy erosion coastal areas to retard wave action.

Coral Reef

A coral-algal mound or ridge of in-place coral colonies and skeletal fragments, carbonate sand, and organically-secreted calcium carbonate. A coral reef is built up around a wave-resistant framework, usually of older coral colonies.

Extensive limestone structures built largely by corals. They occur primarily in shallow tropical and provide habitat for a large variety of other marine life forms.

Cusp

One of a series of short ridges on the foreshore separated by crescent-shaped troughs spaced at more or less regular intervals. Between these cusps are hollows. The cusps are spaced at somewhat uniform distances along beaches. They represent a combination of constructive and destructive processes.

Crest

Highest point on a beach face, breakwater, or seawall.

Beach Width

The horizontal dimension of the beach measured normal to the shoreline and landward of the high water mark line on coasts.

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