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Creator:: Aguilar Tunon, Nicolas A.
Abstract:: Two beaches with significant differences in grain size and thus in beach profile morphology and response to wave conditions were studied on the Oregon coast. Gleneden Beach, just south of Siletz Spit and Lincoln City, has a median grain size of 0.36 mm (medium sand) and a steep beach face...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: shift were determined on California beaches by Shepard (1950). The overall shift in profile type is

Creator:: Lizarraga Arciniega, Jose Roman
Abstract:: Patterns of beach erosion and accretion due to jetty construction are examined for the coast of Oregon. All jetty systems are included with the exception of those on the Columbia River, making a total of nine systems. All evidence indicates that these areas of the Oregon coast are experiencing a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: (Shepard and Wanless, 1971). It has thus been well established that significant erosion and deposition

Creator:: Clemens, Karen E.
Abstract:: Heavy mineral compositions of sands from Oregon beaches, rivers and sea cliffs have been determined in order to examine the causes of marked along-coast variations in the beach-sand mineralogy. The study area extends southward from the Columbia River to the Coquille River in southern Oregon. The heavy-mineral compositions were determined...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 0.2 rh U) 0 Li 0 -0.2 I I _ I _ I (.) U) 1.0 . 0 I- L) 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0 FACTOR -0.2 = .C

Creator:: Rea, Campbell Cary
Abstract:: Siletz Bay is a drowned river valley filled with Holocene alluvial and estuarine sediments and is separated from the ocean by a sand spit 3.8 km in length. Since the area was settled by white man in the 1890's, the bay has apparently experienced rapid siltation, due to increased farming...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : c. Dune grass becoming established on built-up pile of sand and logs. 35 13 Areas of erosion on

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