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Torrey Pines Experiment

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Torrey Pines Beach is part of the Torrey Pines State Preserve located along the coast between the communities of La Jolla and Del Mar, San Diego County, in the southern part of California. The coast is relatively straight with nearly north-south trending beaches backed by 90 m high wave-cut sea cliffs. The 2 km long section of beach selected for the experimental site is 6 km north of Point La Jolla headland and 3 km north of the head of Scripps branch of La Jolla Submarine Canyon (Figure 1A-1).

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  1. Center for Coastal Studies, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA

    D. L. Inman, S. S. Pawka & M. J. Shaw

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    Richard J. Seymour

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Inman, D.L., Pawka, S.S., Shaw, M.J. (1989). Torrey Pines Experiment. In: Seymour, R.J. (eds) Nearshore Sediment Transport. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2531-2_2

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