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== Classification of sediments ==
 
 
 
Sediment Classification
 
[[coastal zone characteristics]]
 
[[rocky shores]] - change to singular
 
[[sandy shores]] - change to singular
 
muddy coastlines - [[characteristics of muddy coasts]]
 
gravel beaches - [[shingle shores and gravel banks]]
 
reflective beaches
 
dissipative beaches
 
 
 
== Sediment transport ==
 
 
 
accretion
 
deposition
 
 
 
Radiation Stress
 
 
 
Sediment dynamics
 
Sediment budget
 
Feedback mechanisms
 
Self-organization
 
 
 
littoral transport
 
bottom boundary layer
 
sediment properties
 
particle size characteristics
 
grain size
 
phi scale
 
porosity
 
viscosity
 
specific gravity
 
settling velocity
 
fall velocity disambiguation settling velocity
 
bed shear stress
 
thresholds of grain movement
 
laminar flow
 
turbulent flow
 
Reynolds number
 
Froude number
 
benthic boundary layer
 
traction
 
saltation
 
bedforms
 
 
 
equilibrium profile
 
beach cross-shore profile
 
beach long-shore shape
 
closure depth
 
wave generated bedforms
 
tidally generated bedforms
 
ridge and runnel
 
ripples
 
antidunes
 
rolling-grain ripples
 
vortex ripples
 
longshore bars and troughs / longshore bar
 
berm / berm formation
 
bed shear stress
 
deltas
 
turbidity
 
turbidity currents
 
bar formation
 
bar migration
 
transverse bar
 
dune formation
 
dune morphology
 
scarp
 
crescentic bars
 
cohesive sediment dynamics
 
turbidity
 
turbidity maximum
 
fluid muds
 
turbulence
 
settling lag
 
 
 
non-cohesive sediment dynamics
 
aeolian
 
aeolian transport
 
blowouts
 
precipitation ridge
 
transgressive dune fields
 
 
 
 
 
erosional coastal features
 
accretional coastal features
 
dredging
 
sand mining
 
 
 
 
 
== Bedforms ==
 
 
 
Sediments may self-organize into various [[bedform]]s, such as [[ripple]]s and [[dune]]s. These are described in the article on [[geomorphology]].
 
 
 
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