beaches
exhibit net longshore transport of sediment and the development of discrete littoral drift cells, within which sources and sinks for sediment and a direction of net transport can be defined. (from Shipman 2008)
Beaches are organized into sites based on the extent littoral drift cells. The 2500 miles of Puget Sound shoreline has been divided into 744 distinct littoral cells where the presence of bluff-backed beach indicates the likely presence of sediment input and transport along retreating coastal bluffs (Cereghino et al 2012).
Littoral drift cells are units of beach that include a source of sediment, conveyance of sediment along the shoreline, and a sink for sediment, either at a convergence zone where two drift cells merge, or offshore below the depth of wave action. Shipman 2008 differentiates between beach systems with littoral drift, and pocket beaches where sediment is relatively contained.
Relationships
- broader: beach
- related to: Aquaculture
- related to: Beach Nourishment
- related to: Chinook Salmon
- related to: Coast Salish peoples
- related to: Conifer Canopy
- related to: Cordilleran Ice Sheet
- related to: Creosote Removal
- related to: Effects of Forest Management on Stream Flow
- related to: Feeder Bluffs
- related to: Marine Mammal Observations
- related to: Sea otters
- related to: Shellfish Aquaculture
- related to: Shoreline Management Program (SMP)
- related to: beach food webs and biodiversity
- related to: bluff-backed beach
- related to: counties
- related to: dethier et al 2016
- related to: eelgrass
- related to: efforts
- related to: esrp
- related to: evaluating salmon rearing limitations in river deltas
- related to: jurisdictions
- related to: landform
- related to: mapping bluffs and beaches to quantify sediment supply
- related to: measuring coastal bluff recession rates throughout the puget sound region
- related to: nearshore chapter update
- related to: noaa
- related to: non-Indigenous British Columbians
- related to: northwest fisheries science center
- related to: places
- related to: psnerp geodatabase
- related to: pwa 2008
- related to: shoreline armoring
- related to: sites
- related to: topics
- related to: us army corps of engineers
- related to: washington state department of ecology
- related to: wdfw
- related to: wdoe
- related to: Budd Inlet Ecosystem
- related to: San Juan Islands
- related to: City of Bellingham
- related to: Washington State Department of Natural Resources
- related to: Science Sprints to Support Regulation
Source: beaches on Salish Sea Wiki