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SHORT COMMUNICATION��A field experiment of cusp formation on a coarse clastic beach using a suspended video-camera system
✍ Scribed by Sunamura, Tsuguo; Aoki, Hisashi
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 362 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-1269
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✦ Synopsis
Cusp formation was continuously monitored on a manually flattened, plane section of a coarse clastic, microtidal, pocket beach on the Pacific coast of Japan using a CCD camera suspended in the air. Vertical video pictures enabled the examination of the temporal change in foreshore morphologies and swash pattern. Boulders on the beach face appeared to have triggered the formation of beach cusps, which gradually and successively grew up alongshore. In 2Á5 h, two well defined beach cusps had developed with a spacing of 2Á2 and 2Á5 m, respectively.