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eventually only the reefs remain above sea level. Unlike the lagoons that form shoreward of fringing reefs, atoll lagoons often contain some deep (>20 m (66 ft))...

short period, sometimes changing a shoreline configuration. Swash is the shoreward flow after the break, backwash is the water flow back down the beach....

shortly after she opened fire. At 06:10, the 11 destroyers of Force J moved shoreward to begin bombardment, hoping to damage light gun emplacements and prevent...

threat after breaking free from their restraints. The tires then migrated shoreward, and ran into a living reef tract, washed up on its slope, and killed...

Anatolia in the current Balıkesir Province of Turkey. It was located on the shoreward side of the present Kapıdağ Peninsula (the classical Arctonnesus), a tombolo...

form where the waves are breaking, because the breaking waves set up a shoreward current with a compensating counter-current along the bottom. Sometimes...

S2CID 4414196. Donnelly, Jeffrey P.; Bertness, Mark D. (2001). "Rapid shoreward encroachment of salt marsh cordgrass in response to accelerated sea-level...

Herne Bay Kent 1899 Majority of pier destroyed in a storm in 1978. The shoreward 'stub' is still open, and the pier head remains isolated 1 km (0.6 mi)...

build up, resulting in tombolo formation, which reduces longshore drift shoreward of the breakwaters. This trapping of sediment can cause adverse effects...

and a small collection of working old penny slot machines. In 2003, the shoreward end of the pier was redeveloped as part of the seafront and town centre...

linear features lie parallel to and shoreward of the Bimini Wall. The Bimini Wall and two linear features lying shoreward of it are composed of flat-lying...

States and occupied thermal-appropriate zones within 10 years, and the shoreward expansion of this thermally appropriate habitat is expected in coming...

surface slicks, oriented parallel to the bottom topography, which progress shoreward with the internal waves. Waters above an internal wave converge and sink...

line more or less parallel to the beach, they carry considerable water shoreward. As they break, the water moving toward the shore has considerable momentum...

Japanese vessel, shooting away one of her masts and leaving her limping shoreward at only 3 knots (6 km/h). After securing from battle stations, Thornback...

to a position on a body of water) Near to or moving towards the shore; shorewards of a position as opposed to seawards of it. See also onshore and offshore...

every third one capped with an anti-tank mine. Another 30 meters (33 yd) shoreward of this line was a continuous line of 450 ramps sloping towards the shore...

scout planes, thundered loudly and sent high explosive shells flying shorewards into the French Army's defensive positions. In the harbor, French Navy...

ships punctually, but lost time on the run in. As the landing craft moved shoreward they received "a warm wind laden with the smell of hayfields blowing upon...

northeast and of the towering cliffs and rocky, primal landscapes to the shoreward (east) side. In 2020, the Wharariki Ecosanctuary was established in the...