7) Shorelines, Tidal Flats and Stormy Coasts

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GEOL-201 Shoreline Processes

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Shoreline Processes

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GEOL-201Shoreline Processes

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Variations in tidal range

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> 4 m 2-4 m < 2 m

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Depositional features on tidal flats

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Bedding related to daily tidal

flows

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Hummocky cross-

stratification: effects of

storm waves below the

fair-weather wave base

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Storm-swept coasts

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Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, V. 43, p. 1165, 2006

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“diachronous”

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