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Movement of Material by the Sea

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Coastal Hydraulics

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This chapter considers the forces involved in the movement of sediment seaward of the breaker zone, commonly called the off-shore zone (see Section 4.1 for definitions of the zones).

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Wood, A.M.M. (1969). Movement of Material by the Sea. In: Coastal Hydraulics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00424-9_3

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