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Shoreline Morphologies

Schematic diagram of wave types and shoreline morphologies with accompanying photographs.

Schematic of wave types and shoreline morphologies with accompanying photographs. Waves reshape the shorelines at Boston Harbor Islands. Where islands are exposed to the longer fetch across the harbor mouth, larger, higher-energy waves create bluffs and scarps (see fig. 11). Smaller waves refract back from the adjacent mainland shorelines. These tend to collect sediment as depositional features (e.g., beaches, salients, and spits).

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Photographs (taken in July 2007) and graphic by Trista Thornberry-Ehrlich (Colorado State University) after a figure presented by Rosen (2007).

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Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, Code: BOHA

Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, Massachusetts
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