Beaches

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Beaches

Beaches form where wave action erodes shorelines creating an intertidal bench of mobile sediment
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Beaches dominate much of Puget Sound’s shoreline. They are characterized by the active transport of sediment by wave action. They can be divided into those associated with coastal bluffs, where the coastline has retreated landward, and those associated with barrier beaches, where sediment has been deposited seaward of the original coastline. Barriers are numerous and include spits, tombolos, cuspate forelands and a variety of other forms. Most Puget Sound beaches (other than the pocket beaches along rocky coasts) 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).

Beach Topics[edit]

Core Beach topics:

Other Beach topics:


Beach Sites and Places[edit]

The following sites are in beaches:

Beach Efforts[edit]

The following efforts are being implemented by workgroups in beaches:

Beach Documents[edit]

The following pages cite documents about beaches:

The following beach documents are uploaded to this wiki:

Old attribute pages[edit]

These were identified as core topics in beach work completed by ESRP, and need to become categories and topic pages.