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  1. Department of Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University, 5130 NW 54th Street, Boca Raton, 33073, FL, USA

    Charles W. Finkl

  2. The Coastal Education and Research Foundation, Coconut Creek, FL, USA

    Charles W. Finkl

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  1. University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

    Jan Harff

  2. University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

    Martin Meschede

  3. GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany

    Sven Petersen

  4. Institute of Earth Science, KÖPPEN-Laboratory, Saint Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

    JÖrn Thiede

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Finkl, C.W. (2016). Beach Processes. In: Harff, J., Meschede, M., Petersen, S., Thiede, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Marine Geosciences. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6238-1_140

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