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• Morphology of estuaries
  **Channel fixation. Channel fixation by artificial embankments or other hard structures impedes the natural propensity of tidal channels to migrate and erode chann ...determined not only by river discharge, but also by the presence of sills (hard outcrops) in the channel bed. A more detailed discussion is presented in [[
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• Harbour porpoise in the Belgian part of the North Sea
  ...of an adult harbor porpoise (''Phocoena phocoena'') head showing the nasal structures and the position of the larynx (LA). (a) overview. (b) detail of boxed area ...of fish who in their turn are attracted by the new habitats formed by the hard substrate of the foundations of the wind turbines (reef effect). Another pl
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• Sand-filled geosystems in coastal engineering
  ...at attention has turned to the use of these materials on permanent coastal structures. Before they have been mostly applied on temporary and emergency works. Exp ..., J. (2007). Hydraulic stability of geotextile sand containers for coastal structures - effect of deformations and stability formulae, PhD Thesis: Leichtweiβ In
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• Decision Support Systems for coastal risk assessment and management
  ...de a Digital Terrain model (Fig. 2) – as detailed as possible; hydraulic structures and infrastructures position, geometry; map of land-use including critical ...orities (municipalities, regional governments, ministry) and scattered and hard to obtain, due to miscommunication among the owners and confidentiality iss
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• Traits:SupportingStructuresEnclosures
  |label=Supporting Structures and Enclosures |definition=Hard framework, internal or external, which supports and protects softer parts o
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• Extreme storms
  ...undation, beach or shore erosion, as well as damages to coastal protection structures or to infrastructure of developed coastal areas (see Figs. 1a-1f). The most ...the toe of structures protecting coastal areas and wave battering of such structures<ref name=Stull></ref>.
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• Rhythmic shoreline features
  ...ath>L</math> is sometimes dictated by external constraints like human-made structures (e.g., groins or breakwaters, see Figure 1a) or the inherited geology (e.g ...eral orders of magnitude, roughly from 1 m to 100 km (see Figure 2). It is hard to think that they simply come out of random processes and their simplicity
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• Swash zone dynamics
  ...us, the morphology is influenced by the presence of dunes, cliffs and hard structures at the landward extent of the beach, by conditions in the inner surf one, n
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• Estuarine ecosystems
  ...g. 3). These mudflats are less suitable for organisms with an affinity for hard substratum but provide an important habitat for a range of burrowing invert ...s and marinas) are usually located right at the waterfront with supporting structures (roads, railways) that cut off the connections with the upper shore habitat
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• Threats to cold water coral reefs, sand banks and seagrass habitats in the North Sea by climate change effects
  '''Reefs''' are hard mineral substrates such as rocks, till, or stones, primarily moraine ridges * biogenic hard substrates such as honeycomb (Sabellaria) reefs and mussel banks are presen
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• Coastal and marine sediments
  ...rtz and clay minerals. Quartz is the only common rock mineral that is both hard (resistant to abrasion) and chemically stable at the Earth's surface. This ...ite CaAl₂Si₂O₈. These minerals are fairly hard, often with pink, white, or grey in color. About 40% of the lithosphere con
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• Hard coastal protection structures
  ...ardening in the US. Front. Ecol. Environ. 13: 301–307</ref>, and coastal structures exist along 9.4% of the coastline in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage ...ki articles are indicated where a more detailed discussion of hard coastal structures can be found. Large parts of this article are taken from the coastal engine
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• Dealing with coastal erosion
  ===Shoreline stabilisation with hard measures=== ...the net littoral drift <math>S(x)</math> along the shoreline for different hard interventions, such as groynes or detached breakwaters.]]
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• Talk:Dealing with coastal erosion
  ...f coastal erosion''', '''Hard shoreline protection structures''', '''Hard structures and and structural erosion''', '''Shore protection, coast protection and se
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• Hard shoreline protection structures
  #Redirect[[Hard coastal protection structures]]
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• Shore protection, coast protection and sea defence methods
  #Redirect[[Hard coastal protection structures]]
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• Nature-based shore protection
  Nature can offer shore protection in addition to or instead of manmade hard structures. Nature-based shore protection is provided by living shorelines that genera ...ewed the functionality of natural barriers as nature-based coastal defence structures. Their analyses and syntheses demonstrated the following: ''a) coastal habi
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• Classification of sandy coastlines
  ...ve exposure. The geomorphological processes associated with these physical structures are also fundamental to the way in which the more dynamic habitats and ecos ...alt with in [[Dealing with coastal erosion]] and [[Hard coastal protection structures]].
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• Stability of rubble mound breakwaters and shore revetments
  Extensive treatments on the stability of shore protection structures under the influence of waves and currents can be found in the ''Rock Manual ...ial reefs]] and [[Sand-filled geosystems in coastal engineering]]. Coastal structures can influence the shoreline morphology in several ways; this influence is d
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• Sand spit
  ...currently sediment starved, after the protection of the promontory with a hard seawall. The sand spit is thinning and moving southward, causing erosion of ...depending on the type of morphodynamic feedback. Self-organized shoreline structures can also develop at low-angle wave incidence, triggered by other processes,
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