Sediment
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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 bedforms, such as ripples and dunes. These are described in the article on geomorphology.
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